20GB Intel IP Data Breach Floods the Internet, Mentions Backdoors

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24074588

We've moved the comments thither, except ones that only make sense here.

dup https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24074588

"mentions backdoors"... nobody is saying they have found a backdoor in the leak, they just suggest looking to see if there is one. This headline is fantastically overly sensational, to a level of irresponsibility.

>The poster encourages downloaders to look for mentions of 'backdoors' in some of the Intel source code, and even provides a sample clip of one such listing

You mean this? https://twitter.com/deletescape/status/1291422841834016770 It's literally just the word backdoor, with nothing to suggest anything nefarious related to it. I expect a bit more than that before news starts reporting on it.

Yeah, I flagged this entirely due to the irresponsible headline. Too many people will read the headline and then repeat long afterwards because a conspiracy theory about a large company is hard to resist.

The news doesn't exist to inform us of the truth, it exists to get clicks which generate revenue.

indeed:

>This code, to us, appears to involve the handling of memory error detection and correction rather than a "backdoor" in the security sense. The IOH SR 17 probably refers to scratchpad register 17 in the I/O hub, part of Intel's chipsets, that is used by firmware code.

https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/06/intel_nda_source_code...

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