I would love to post a link but I’m unable to do so.
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.
Isn’t it nice to find out that your CPU can do more than was orginally advertized?
Regarding the selection of admissions:
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
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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