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> which a single rouge actor in a foundry is not capable of If this were true, then the Apple M1 would never be as reverse engineered as it is now.
by netr0ute 5y ago
> which a single rouge actor in a foundry is not capable of
If this were true, then the Apple M1 would never be as reverse engineered as it is now.
- turminal 5y agoThat's a very different kind of reverse engineering
- dtgriscom 5y agoFiguring out the block diagram of a chip is very different from mapping out the physical location of all the busses and gates so that you can splice new circuitry in without damaging the existing functionality.
- PeterisP 5y agoReverse engineering for compatibility does not give you an insight to any backdoors there, just as even having the full source code for a system does not trivially reveal all the backdoors or bugs it has.