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Backdoor found in closed source AMD Linux driver
- wanda 13y agoProtip #1 HNsearch is your friend. http://hnsearch.com http://hnsearch.com → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7049950 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7049950 ▬▬▬ Protip #2 read the Twitter conversation before submitting a Tweet. @KieronGillespie It is just checking to make sure the render state hasn't been compromised between execution. Preventing hacks in games. @KieronGillespie This may have something more to do with backdoor hacking into D3D for hackers to enable wall and speed hacks for their games @rhymoid Disassemble it and you'll see it's harmless. @molnar_g Disassembly: http://pastebin.com/K1hRupTp Maybe I am wrong, maybe I am an idealist, but I would prefer to think that nobody would be stupid enough to label a malicious backdoor as `backdoor`.