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Re:Http://www.google.com/wo0dh3ad by stcredzero on Friday January 07, 2011 @09:44AM (#2079655)
Stuff like this would be easy to hide in the guise of "Hardware DRM."
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Re:Http://www.google.com/wo0dh3ad by wladimir on Friday January 07, 2011 @11:31AM (#2079989)
Yes, I guess on-processor DRM and any kind of virtualisation (will the real hypervisor please stand up?) are prime suspects for this kind of thing. But they are also the most obvious, it could be cramped into everything.

It'd be mighty interesting to tear apart / scan / reverse engineer some modern CPUs like they did with the 6502. Then again, these beasts are so complex that's similar to looking for a needle in a galaxy-sized haystack.

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