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> Probably the keys are on well-guarded offline HSMs I wouldn't be so sure... After hearing that American nuclear launch codes were all zeroes for decades, no

• the_third_wave 4y ago
  Those codes were intentionally zeroed to get around what was (most likely rightly so) considered to be a failure of the launch doctrine to take into account the possibility of the leadership being knocked out which would make a retaliatory launch impossible due to the lack of valid launch codes. I don't think Intel has such problems and I assume they are keen on keeping their microcode update process from being abused - it is not as if they don't have enough problems as it is.