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Subject: Open Fabs
From: [email protected] (grarpamp)
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 04:44:46 -0400
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On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 11:17 PM, Sean Lynch <[email protected]> wrote:
> On the other hand, I also seriously doubt Intel CPUs are backdoored

Even if they're not physically backdoored with handy extra gates,
they seem logically backdoorable by demanding the signing keys
needed for loading microcode (Intel/AMD) and AMT firmware (Intel,
don't plug your "LM" series NIC into the WAN.)

http://inertiawar.com/microcode/
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Microcode
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Active_Management_Technology
http://invisiblethingslab.com/resources/bh09dc/Attacking%20Intel%20TXT%20-%20paper.pdf
http://invisiblethingslab.com/resources/bh09dc/Attacking%20Intel%20TXT%20-%20slides.pdf

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