God Mode Backdoors, AP Crowdfund vs Wikileaks Models

Steven Schear schear.steve at gmail.com
Fri Aug 31 15:34:27 PDT 2018


The pre-boot code cannot be created from only the specification. It is
often the single place where the many variances found during manufacture
that roll-up erratas and internal memos by the manufacturer and fab.

On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 10:09 PM grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 8/30/18, Steven Schear <schear.steve at gmail.com> wrote:
> > fully OS CPUs and SoCs
> > (including the pre-boot code which is still proprietary for even
> otherwise
> > open designs)
>
> No, if the CPUs were truly open, proprietary boot code
> would be completely mooted just write your own to spec.
> Only stupid sheep and order takers would continue using
> closed shit.
>
> Yes there are no truly open CPUs, nor open Fabs, that's the problem.
> It's easily fixable, and extremely profitable for the first players to do
> it.
>
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