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Donning tinfoil hat, NSA is just one part of USG. USG is one of hundreds of countries, zillions of criminal enterprises that would like to get intel's private
by ballard 13y ago
Donning tinfoil hat, NSA is just one part of USG. USG is one of hundreds of countries, zillions of criminal enterprises that would like to get intel's private keys and μcode format.
Given that intel is a large company the odds favor one/more external actors having access.
There's really no way to know without some sort of way for IDS to check μcode. Never going to happen due to the blackbox nature of closed, proprietary systems.
- XorNot 13y agoOr we could all just realize that for the time and effort of trying to write a backdoor into a general purpose CPU, which would need huge amounts of memory to be remotely capable of keeping track of code execution and to correctly make an OS remotely exploitable (you know, involving the network stack, probably TCP/IP and other things) rather then just crashing it...that it easier just to email someone an executable saying "I love you.exe" and wait for them to run it. This is looking through the microscope to determine whether a forest is on fire.
- ffrryuu 13y agoDenying the truth won't make the problem go away.