I’m with you, but again, context. A compromised machine used to be a hosed machine until you reinitialized the drive and started clean. People are just starting to wake up to the fact that there’s another computer in your computer to which the same maxims apply.

Anyone that is serious about security hopefully knows this.

(I have no skin in the AMD/Intel CPU game. Too many machines running both to bother. I can’t believe I have to say this on HN, it’s what I’d expect of [H]ard in 2004.)