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0 pointslegends2k5y ago0 comments

The first section of [1] explains that with references

[1]: https://legends2k.github.io/note/clean_me

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oh my. I don't see why bloomberg got all busy with hidden Chinese chips. It looks like intel already have it covered.

Alas, it is so. Graphics cards have much the same going on. It's part of why Nvidia will likely never opensource or mainline their drivers... They have a huge need for blobs and hardware backed secrecy in order to enable most systems to be compatible with HDCP. That means they need to be able to attest to their cards having not been compromised since leaving the factory.

As someone could in theory cobble together an HDCP compliant rig and good heavens, might be able to intercept and decode HD content!

So much of what makes the tech giants so lucrative is that they act as centralization points for industry level orchestration of what user behavior to support.

You can bet that if an industry working group is stoked, there's likely hidden in there somewhere an implementation detail intended to curb an undesirable user freedom or general capability.

katbyte5y ago

> HDCP compliant rig and good heavens, might be able to intercept and decode HD content!

As if that even matters - pointless standard. can't think of any content that there isn't a torrent up hours after it's available lol

mindslight5y ago

The biggest difference is that graphics cards don't have network access. Without network access, proprietary code can be an annoyance, but won't be an outright compromise.

(sure the code could still do nasty stuff like facilitate tempest or other sidechannels, but that's leaps and bounds ahead of the built in assumed-RCEs of ME/PSP).

ekianjo5y ago

Not just Intel. amd too.

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