Re: Smoke and mirrors
Smoke and mirrors is right, and I couldn't agree with you more. Nobody who values security would deliberately pick any CPU afflicted by this kind of nonsense. It is a terrible idea however you look at it.
Any DRM will be cracked wide open sooner or later, and if the user has no access then it becomes a massive security problem that can't easily be fixed. I doubt it would take long before the backdoored chip was being accessed on a global scale by *all* the security services and criminals out there - and not just the ones who helped design it.
And as for Microsoft doing security when they can't even manage to issue a Windows update without breaking their own hardware and software? No thanks!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
