If you get a microscope and manage to peer into this secret hidey hole in the CPU you will see a bunch of tiny little NSA spooks, Russian and Chinese hackers scuttle away to hide in other dark hidden secret corners of the Intel CPU.
It's a good thing that all governments act within the confines of the law (both wittingly and otherwise).
It's a good thing that all software we write is correct and sound, and that no bug ever existed nor the desire to exploit such a bug should it have existed.
Paranoid people with their tinfoil hats. Shesh!