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Let's say there are backdoors in our cpus. How would one go about detecting them?


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Let's say there are backdoors in our cpus. How would one go about detecting them?
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>>51425275
Take them out of the socket and inspect the pin side
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>>51425275
You probably couldn't until activated.
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Very carefully.
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>>51425275
Use the secret sentence: My gosh, that Italian family at the next table is really quiet.
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Can't detect them. And they are there.
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>>51425452
How do you know?
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>>51425545
The Shadow knows.
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bugging a given device is realistic
bugging an entire set of products requires manufacturer complicity.
I think if it was the case we would have known by now
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>>51425275
Intel laptops already have killswitches and shit, so they are assumed to be backdoored
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>>51425856
[citation needed]
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>>51425275
Probably all you can do is traffic monitoring or asking somebody with intel hidden cheatsheet
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>>51426048
How the fuck do you think you can remotely lock your laptop then?
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>>51426374
I can't.
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>>51426463
https://www-ssl.intel.com/content/dam/doc/product-brief/mobile-computing-protect-laptops-and-data-with-intel-anti-theft-technology-brief.pdf

Also your cpu has microcode that can be updated by your operating system (for example).
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>>51425275
same as any backdoor, see how it responds to the network.
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