Would you consider this to be illegal as well? https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nikola-Zlatanov/publication/295010710_Booting_an_Intel_System_Architecture/l

Would you consider this to be illegal as well? https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nikola-Zlatanov/publication/295010710_Booting_an_Intel_System_Architecture/links/56c659fa08ae0d3b1b603e91/Booting-an-Intel-System-Architecture.pdf https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nikola-Zlatanov/publica... "Microcode Update. Microcode is a hardware layer of instructions involved in the implementation of the machine-defined architecture. It is most prevalent in CISC-based processors. Microcode is developed by the CPU7 vendor and incorporated into an internal CPU ROM during manufacture. Since the infamous “Pentium flaw,” Intel processor architecture allows that microcode to be updated in the field either through a BIOS update or via an OS update of “configuration data.” Today an Intel processor must have the latest microcode update to be considered a warranted CPU. Intel provides microcode updates that are written to the writable microcode store in the CPU. The updates are encrypted and signed by Intel such that only the processor that the microcode update was designed for can authenticate and load that update. On socketed systems, the BIOS may have to carry many flavors of microcode update depending on the number of processor steppings supported. It is important to load the microcode updates early in the boot sequence to limit the exposure of the system to any known errata in the silicon. It is important to note that the microcode update may need to be reapplied to the CPU after certain reset events in the boot sequence. The BSP microcode update must be loaded before No-Eviction mode is entered." There is also this walkthrough https://igor-blue.github.io/2021/02/04/secure-boot.html https://igor-blue.github.io/2021/02/04/secure-boot.html And here in the EU some sorts of reverse engineering is legal which will include microcode, but interpretation of law is a minefield in its own right, because no one can tell what mood a Judge or Judges might be in on decision day! https://www.vidstromlabs.com/blog/the-legal-boundaries-of-reverse-engineering-in-the-eu/ https://www.vidstromlabs.com/blog/the-legal-boundaries-of-re...