Re:20GB leak of Intel data: whole Git repositories, dev tool...
by mzs on Friday August 07, 2020 @02:29PM
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indeed it literally was the author's suggestion to search for the word 'backdoor':
>This code, to us, appears to involve the handling of memory error detection and correction rather than a "backdoor" in the security sense. The IOH SR 17 probably refers to scratchpad register 17 in the I/O hub, part of Intel's chipsets, that is used by firmware code.
>This code, to us, appears to involve the handling of memory error detection and correction rather than a "backdoor" in the security sense. The IOH SR 17 probably refers to scratchpad register 17 in the I/O hub, part of Intel's chipsets, that is used by firmware code.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24084977