Mystical Things May Be Inside Your CPU's

[grarpamp]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcode

https://danluu.com/cpu-bugs/
We saw some really bad Intel CPU bugs in 2015, and we should expect to
see more in the future

https://danluu.com/cpu-backdoors/
what could a backdoored CPU do, how could the backdoor be accessed,
and what kind of compromise would be required to install the backdoor?

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219268
Blobs that fix exploitable things may be slightly better than blobs.
Awareness should be raised, and updates applied to systems.

Unless fixes are tricks to install more exploits ;)