intel hopefully fucked

[Razer]

On 3/9/20 1:22 PM, Punk-Stasi 2.0 wrote:
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> 	I'm sending this again because it seems kinda on-topic (as opposed to say, the flu hysteria, 'womens day' and similar garbage) 
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> 	http://blog.ptsecurity.com/2020/03/intelx86-root-of-trust-loss-of-trust.html
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> 	It's not clear to me how the exploit is supposed to work, and I haven't researched it further, but as far as I can tell it seems as if all chips have one single, master private key in them...or something like that. 
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> 	My naive assumption is that all locked down hardware-malware has a publick key in ROM, and that the chip will only accept signed firmware. So there shouldn't be any private key. But the intel system looks a lot more complex. 
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> 	So, what's going on? 
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The one malicious use I've seen mentioned is the possibility of a
virtually undetectable keylogger running at bios level during the
machine's operation.

Rr

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