who are the right people?

Zenaan Harkness zen at freedbms.net
Mon May 1 17:32:13 PDT 2017


On Mon, May 01, 2017 at 03:21:52PM -0700, Ryan Carboni wrote:
> https://semiaccurate.com/2017/05/01/remote-security-exploit-2008-intel-platforms/
> 
> 
> First a little bit of background. SemiAccurate has known about
> this
> vulnerability for literally years now, it came up in research we
> were doing on hardware backdoors over five years ago. What we found
> was scary on a level that literally kept us up at night.
> For obvious reasons we couldn’t
> publish what we found out

Yeah, obvious.

Just as well they kept their work hidden until after it got exposed
by other channels nearly 10 years later, otherwise we might have
thought SemiAccurate was fundamentally compromised from the get go
and are now trying to cash in on their 10 year old "find".

I mean, what scruples, what ... integrity.


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