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AMD denies researcher a $10,000 bug bounty after fixing critical auto-updater vulnerability — security flaw took 124 days to patch (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] Miaou@jlai.lu 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Lots of downvotes but no actual answer to your question.

I assume it's in case some third parties redistribute the binaries so end users can still check them? Mirrors, internal IT update mechanisms, idk