Intel Hit by a Devastating Data Breach, Chip Designs, Code, Possible Backdoors Leaked

[efikkan]

Yes and with the Code of Business Conduct that every employee must sign to keep confidential information for himself while working with it is nothing so the confidential info should be floating around internet like it was just another day on the beach for you? So yeah, for me, it proves that there is something wrong in Intel's ranks because this shouldn't have happened ever.

I'm sorry, but I don't think you realize the scope of this.
Intel have thousands of engineers working on various parts of CPU designs (plus thousands of former engineers), then they have many partnerships with research at universities, and all kinds of business partners and third-party developers, all of these are under some kind of NDA and access to varying degrees of sensitive information. Do you really expect all of these (tens of thousands of people) to stay 100% loyal and not do a single mistake to get compromised themselves?

The reality is valuable information is going to get leaked, sometimes not to the general public or sometimes it flies under the radar. But it's very likely that it's going to get out there some day.

 

[c2DDragon]

It would be a perfect day to make a poll :
Which new CPU would you buy ?

1. Tiger Lake
2. Zen 3

 

[Houd.ini]

Why?
Anything relying on obscurity is not secure in the first place.

And intel has never done that?

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

If i download everything from my nda account and post it, it’s Intel’s fault?

Do you think the alleged back doors are worth worry then or not so much?.

 

[Assimilator]

Someone wants to make this a lot more than it is, and is succeeding.

Yup - and the idiots are falling for it, as many of the posts in this thread demonstrate.

 

[$ReaPeR$]

Intel should get it's sh@t together. It has become to big for it's own good and with size comes bureaucracy that brings this kind of ridiculousness. And no, I'm not worried about security issues but this is making Intel look like a joke and not the multi-billion giant that it is.

 

[Deleted member 181753]

Intel123 Stock are going fast down..
Watch Live on Wall Street !

Now is the right time to dump all the Intel123 Stocks, while is value some cents..

 

[Jism]

The tweeter also notes "If you find password protected zips in the release the password is probably either "Intel123" or "intel123". This was not set by me or my source, this is how it was acquired from Intel."

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, but we aren't sure of the intentions behind the listings in the code.

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Are Intel engineers really that dump and marked "backdoors" in the actual code ?

Apart from that, if you password protect a zip file it's useless. The only ones really strong is RAR that could not even be broken with a cluster of GPU's in a reasonabel timespan. Aka the password protection on zip is very weak and could be bruteforced in matter of minutes.

A backdoor build in by intel is'nt a unreal situation either. But if there is any solid proof for that, then Intel is screwed. Getting to the public that backdoors in Intel CPU's do exist and can be exploited to this day is just game over.

 

[ratirt]

I'm sorry, but I don't think you realize the scope of this.
Intel have thousands of engineers working on various parts of CPU designs (plus thousands of former engineers), then they have many partnerships with research at universities, and all kinds of business partners and third-party developers, all of these are under some kind of NDA and access to varying degrees of sensitive information. Do you really expect all of these (tens of thousands of people) to stay 100% loyal and not do a single mistake to get compromised themselves?

The reality is valuable information is going to get leaked, sometimes not to the general public or sometimes it flies under the radar. But it's very likely that it's going to get out there some day.

You've answered yourself. Why aren't they stay loyal and give so much info into the public? It is different when you get NV specs for the card they release for instance but it's a totally different story when so much future stuff is being published like that dude did. I'm sure it is not a former Intel employee due to the fact it reaches so much into the new things Intel is going to release.
So, I'm going to say it again. Something is wrong with Intel's ranks and this is evident prove. For me it kinda is especially if you see the struggle Intel has at this point with basically a lot of stuff. Starting from CPU volume to new node and performance of the products. This has to account for something sketchy going on at Intel.

 

[Chomiq]

What a dumpster fire.

 

[EarthDog]

What a dumpster fire.

What's worse? what happened or all the assumptions about what it really means?

 

[Lionheart]

Where did my silly meme go? TPU can't take a joke? lol

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

Intel123 Stock are going fast down..
Watch Live on Wall Street !

Now is the right time to dump all the Intel123 Stocks, while is value some cents..

you mean the whole $0.54 cents its dropped since the market opened 3.5 hours ago?

 

[EarthDog]

Its down 1%... BUY BUY BUY!!! LOLOL


...... but we'll see what the rest of the day holds!

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

the major drop was on July 24th. doubt it will drop much more this soon.

 

[moproblems99]

What's worse? what happened or all the assumptions about what it really means?

Does it matter? It means the world is full of idiots or 90% of data centers are screwed.

 

[EarthDog]

Does it matter? It means the world is full of idiots or 90% of data centers are screwed.

I'm more worried about idiots. Look at the world we live in.

Do you want to treat the symptoms or solve the underlying problem?

 

[moproblems99]

I'm more worried about idiots. Look at the world we live in.

Do you want to treat the symptoms or solve the underlying problem?

I agree but you know some parasites are with you forever?

 

[EarthDog]

I agree but you know some parasites are with you forever?

Idiots are why they are in this in the first place. You can't eliminate them, but let's be real and resolve the problem instead of treating symptoms.

 

[Franzen4Real]

No thanks, i think you may be lost as to what century this is. The year is 2020, it mostly sucks, the bible and its plagiarized fictions are uninvolved in the human stupidity of someone setting a password as dumb as Intel123 on 'secure' files.

Today at 3:34 AM Low quality post by Mussels

As a moderator-- maybe if were professional and set a good example we would have better comments over all, and my ignore list could be less extensive?

 

[moproblems99]

Idiots are why they are in this in the first place. You can't eliminate them, but let's be real and resolve the problem instead of treating symptoms.

Unfortunately, it's a lot like Covid. Can't whack em out before more pop up.

 

[Vayra86]

I love the picture of the Dam wall breaking before the flood hits everyone below, that is not a leak, someone blew it wide open.

Note the obvious Lake reference as well. 10/10

Well done Intel, you found a perfect argument to be delayed again. Onwards to stagnation!

Today at 3:34 AM Low quality post by Mussels

As a moderator-- maybe if were professional and set a good example we would have better comments over all, and my ignore list could be less extensive?

Badum tss

Unfortunately, it's a lot like Covid. Can't whack em out before more pop up.

They have a movie on that called Idiocracy. Even just the intro is pure gold and cold hard truth all wrapped into a minute.

 

[Shatun_Bear]

Intel are a sinking ship.

Engineering sample of Zen 3 (a 4950X) hitting 4.9Ghz earlier is even more bad news for them

 

[hurakura]

Intel is winning!!!

 

[Vayra86]

You've answered yourself. Why aren't they stay loyal and give so much info into the public? It is different when you get NV specs for the card they release for instance but it's a totally different story when so much future stuff is being published like that dude did. I'm sure it is not a former Intel employee due to the fact it reaches so much into the new things Intel is going to release.
So, I'm going to say it again. Something is wrong with Intel's ranks and this is evident prove. For me it kinda is especially if you see the struggle Intel has at this point with basically a lot of stuff. Starting from CPU volume to new node and performance of the products. This has to account for something sketchy going on at Intel.

This doesn't look like a very high level access to be honest. If its downloadable and shareable, its not exactly that sensitive. Nowhere do I read some technical security has been breached, and if the data is put online, its certainly not making a lot of money.

Might want to hold our horses on the verdict. Intel shares strategic data with its partners for example, its not exactly special. They need to know what's coming.