> If I were to backdoor an IC, I'd use the third-party IP method. It would be much easier to sneak something in that way. I'm not a hardware designer, but I im

> If I were to backdoor an IC, I'd use the third-party IP method. It would be much easier to sneak something in that way. I'm not a hardware designer, but I imagine that restricting a backdoor to a specific block might make it much harder to cause the rest of the hardware to behave in a specific way?