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this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2023
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This page tells you how to get your CPUID: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000006831/processors/processor-utilities-and-programs.html
Then search for the CPUID here: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/topic-technology/software-security-guidance/processors-affected-consolidated-product-cpu-model.html
I figured out how to do it fairly quickly but it would be a hell of a lot easier if people could just type in "11700K" in a box on a web page or something and it could just tell them. Or they could have added a little bit of code to their CPU ID utility that says "yupp your processor is effected by the flaw". I am mostly annoyed at all this not for me but for all the people who would read those pages and the contents would seem like an insane foreign language to them all while articles are telling them it's a major security flaw that would allow people to steal their encryption keys.
That is a fair point.