Security team discovers micro code that lets you edit Intel CPU micro code. Sanctioned by Tresury department soon afterward

I would love to post a link but I’m unable to do so.

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Try it now, I bumped you up to lv1 from lv0

I created that TLDR

Their presentation was rejected by the Blackhat committee, but a panel on the benefits of a diverse security team was allowed to present itself at the event.

I recall hearing about agents from entities like the NSA are known to go to that event.

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Isn’t it nice to find out that your CPU can do more than was orginally advertized? :upside_down_face:

Regarding the selection of admissions:

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am I the only one that thinks this should have some potential to actually lead to some good things? Like, community patches for security holes? Reverse engineering of Intel CPUs?
Maybe someday.

I would think every processor in modern times has some way of rewriting microcode, though, because microcode patching is a thing.

They had the microcode keys leaked a while ago or something, with that you could overclock non overclocking CPUs

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is that why Xeons suddenly spiked in price?
I wonder if it could be used to unlock hyperthreading on non-HT CPUs…

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