Let's say there are backdoors in our cpus. How would one go about detecting them?
>>51425275
Take them out of the socket and inspect the pin side
>>51425275
You probably couldn't until activated.
Very carefully.
>>51425275
Use the secret sentence: My gosh, that Italian family at the next table is really quiet.
Can't detect them. And they are there.
>>51425452
How do you know?
>>51425545
The Shadow knows.
bugging a given device is realistic
bugging an entire set of products requires manufacturer complicity.
I think if it was the case we would have known by now
>>51425275
Intel laptops already have killswitches and shit, so they are assumed to be backdoored
>>51425856
[citation needed]
>>51425275
Probably all you can do is traffic monitoring or asking somebody with intel hidden cheatsheet
>>51426048
How the fuck do you think you can remotely lock your laptop then?
>>51426374
I can't.
>>51426463
https://www-ssl.intel.com/content/dam/doc/product-brief/mobile-computing-protect-laptops-and-data-with-intel-anti-theft-technology-brief.pdf
Also your cpu has microcode that can be updated by your operating system (for example).
>>51425275
same as any backdoor, see how it responds to the network.