Reply to post: Yet Another case of "Security by obscurity"

The off-brand 'military-grade' x86 processors, in the library, with the root-granting 'backdoor'

John Smith 19 Gold badge
FAIL

Yet Another case of "Security by obscurity"

That doesn't work.

And if I'm reading that "Invocation code" right that's 6 hex digits, IE a 24bit binary number.

Shouldn't be too tough to brute force all of the actual wake up codes in that list.

A system that grants nearly unlimited access (potentially remotely) to your processors.

It's not the idea, it's the security chain that should exist around it that prevents the wrong people using it.

The simplest option is of course, not to have it in the first place.

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