Reply to post: It's 2017 and buffer o/flows & security by obscurity is still thought a brilliant plan.

Intel finds critical holes in secret Management Engine hidden in tons of desktop, server chipsets

John Smith 19 Gold badge
WTF?

It's 2017 and buffer o/flows & security by obscurity is still thought a brilliant plan.

And note that word "trusted"

Not in "we" can be trusted to run your applications safely,no.

You can be trusted to run only the content you have purchased.

This is at least as much about the hardware realization of Microsoft "Palladium" AKA "Trusted Computing Initiative" as anything else.

The computer hardware equivalent of "The Manchurian Candidate."

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