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Subject New Intel CPUs Have NSA Exploitable Secret Hidden Backdoor

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Hardware security export Damien Zammit revealed some startling revelations in a recent SoftPedia about the secret backdoor built in to new Intel CPUs that no one can touch or disable.

The backdoor, called the Intel Management Engine (ME) is works as a secret subsystem inside your computer’s CPU and runs constantly even when your computer is not turned on.

It works but setting up a TCP/IP server and since the subsystem has complete uncontrolled access to your computer’s hardware, including the network card and memory, it works without the knowledge of your computers operating system and can not be disabled by the OS or by your computer’s firewall.

No one outside of Intel has seen the ME source code and security experts are warning the built-in backdoor has the potential to explode into the worst root kit ever with every modern Intel based CPU becoming compromised.

Intel asserts it is secure from hackers and such attacks because it is protected by 2048 bit RSA encryption which theoretically thought to be uncrackable during the lifespan of everyone living on earth today.

However, the same theories were thought to be applicable to previous incarnations of the current 2048 bit RSA standard each iteration of which was proven to be absolutely wrong in practice.

Given advancements in mathematical theory relating to algorithms such as the variations of the Quadratic Sieve (QS) and the General Number Field Seive (GNFS) combined with advances in computer hardware and software to support parallel computing researchers have repeatedly surpassed theoretical limits decades and centuries before they were theoretically thought to be vulnerable.

In the mean time relatively unexplored frontiers in current technology remain abound.

[link to alexanderhiggins.com]

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