Re:Christopher Domas: Hardware Backdoors in X86 CPUs
by dvfjsdhgfv on Thursday August 09, 2018 @05:56PM
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Still, the consequences are huge. Also, how can we be sure something similar isn't implemented in modern CPUs?
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Re:Christopher Domas: Hardware Backdoors in X86 CPUs
by iodiniemetra on Thursday August 09, 2018 @06:17PM
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This is absolutely implemented in modern CPUs, as debug or management features. Usually switched off - being able to turn it on from ring 3 would be a massive bug.