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GOD MODE UNLOCKED - Hardware Backdoors in x86 CPUs
Black Hat
Christopher Domas's Black Hat talk demonstrates a hardware backdoor in a third-party x86 processor, a hidden core that grants root from userland. He uses it to discuss how feasible broader hardware backdoors might be.
Cited in hardware-trust and supply-chain threads as a concrete, startling demonstration of chip-level backdoors.
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