Is it safe not to install intel-microcode (or amd-microcode)?
Hello, all!
I want to have a completely Free install of Debian, which means I will
only be using software packages from the main repo, and will be
excluding contrib and non-free from my sources file.
By doing so, I won't be able to install the microcode updates for my
computer's CPU. Is this safe, given that these microcode updates
reportedly patch up vulnerabilities in the these processors?
Even the Debian wiki (https://wiki.debian.org/Microcode) says that these
microcode updates are "not safe to ignore".
Cheers!
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