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Was it OEMs that asked for the feature or did three letter agencies pay AMD and Intel to back door all CPUs?
by newsclues 5y ago
Was it OEMs that asked for the feature or did three letter agencies pay AMD and Intel to back door all CPUs?
- monocasa 5y agoCPUs being backdoored is orthogonal to this.
- newsclues 5y agoThe security processor is a black box. If the nsa wants a back door, could this functionality not be the justification for the security weakness created by installing the security processor? It’s what I’d do..,
- monocasa 5y agoThe security processor is there and starting the boot process whether or not it's checking a per CPU key on die.
- chiph 5y agoPerhaps not to back-door them, but to ensure when they (the government agencies) buy from Dell that the supply chain is intact and the BIOS hasn't been tampered with during shipping by a foreign agency. Like the NSA did to Cisco routers destined for international customers.