4 New Vulnerabilities in Most Intel CPUs

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[–]wizzwizz4 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

This isn't a backdoor, though. (And if you're talking about IME, it probably isn't intended to be a backdoor (despite being able to easily function as one) and there are several ways to mostly disable it. Still pretty rubbish, though.)

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Good points, but I think it was intentional. https://www.eteknix.com/nsa-may-backdoors-built-intel-amd-processors/

[–]zyxzevn 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I think that Intel and AMD will have gotten quite a donation for backdooring all PCs. But we will probably not really know, until it is too late.

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think you are almost certainly correct. It's probably part of that $60 billion per year additional "black budget" the CIA gets that no one gets to know anything about.