Thursday, August 6th 2020
Intel Hit by a Devastating Data Breach, Chip Designs, Code, Possible Backdoors Leaked
Intel on Thursday was hit by a massive data-breach, with someone on Twitter posting links to an archive that contains the dump of the breach - a 20-gigabyte treasure chest that includes - but not limited to - Intel Management Engine bringup guides, flashing tools, samples; source code of Consumer Electronics Firmware Development Kit (CEFDK); silicon and FSP source packages for various platforms; an assortment of development and debugging tools; Simics simulation for "Rocket Lake S" and other platforms; a wealth of roadmaps and other documents; shcematics, documents, tools, and firmware for "Tiger Lake," Intel Trace Hub + decoder files for various Intel ME versions; "Elkhart Lake" silicon reference and sample code; Bootguard SDK, "Snow Ridge" simulator; design schematics of various products; etc.
The most fascinating part of the leak is the person points to the possibility of Intel laying backdoors in its code and designs - a very tinfoil hat though likely possibility in the post-9/11 world. Intel in a comment to Tom's Hardware denied that its security apparatus had been compromised, and instead blamed someone with access to this information for downloading the data. "We are investigating this situation. The information appears to come from the Intel Resource and Design Center, which hosts information for use by our customers, partners and other external parties who have registered for access. We believe an individual with access downloaded and shared this data," a company spox said.
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Tom's Hardware
The most fascinating part of the leak is the person points to the possibility of Intel laying backdoors in its code and designs - a very tinfoil hat though likely possibility in the post-9/11 world. Intel in a comment to Tom's Hardware denied that its security apparatus had been compromised, and instead blamed someone with access to this information for downloading the data. "We are investigating this situation. The information appears to come from the Intel Resource and Design Center, which hosts information for use by our customers, partners and other external parties who have registered for access. We believe an individual with access downloaded and shared this data," a company spox said.
151 Comments on Intel Hit by a Devastating Data Breach, Chip Designs, Code, Possible Backdoors Leaked
Of course, because keeping track of a billion different passwords is a fucking nightmare, the end result is predictably that everyone uses the same stupidly weak password for everything. So the policy, like pretty much all policies that involve passwords, ends up having no effect besides pissing people off.People are still getting triggered by Internet comments about their imaginary sky deities in 2020? Wow.What a moronic "argument". How many functional quantum computers are there, again?
Do you not think they're testing new GPU on new Intel hardware.
It is however a really really bad idea in general to have it in a CPU stack.
If the leak was caused by their own backdoor, I'll start to believe in God, that must've be divine punishment...
A lot of the information in this leak is probably already known to AMD, some is shared among the companies, other through spying. And even if they could get hold of complete chip designs, it would probably be of very little use. At most, they probably could get some "inspiration" from it, but adopting other's chip design or code into your own is generally not very useful.
Let's drop the hype.
Now, my buddy is only lurking and never exposes themselves, so I'm their proxy. :D That's why I said I'm asking for a friend.There is a simple truth - if they can do it, they will do it. Power and money trully corrupt everyone. Once one establishes that one is more than the 'lesser' minds, all methods of one's delusion are perfectly justified, simple psyche. Backdoors, WMD, you name it. All suddenly becomes acceptable.