[tor-relays] Exploiting firmware

[Roman Mamedov]

On Wed, 7 Dec 2016 22:50:39 +0000
Alex Haydock <alex at alexhaydock.co.uk> wrote:

> Intel ME/AMT concerns me too, especially how unavoidable it seems to be
> on modern CPUs (AMD is no escape, as they have an equivalent in the form
> of their "Platform Security Processor").

On AMD that's been implemented only after "Family 15h"
https://libreboot.org/faq/#amdbastards
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_CPU_microarchitectures

Family 15h itself is safe.

It includes FX-series 8-core CPUs at up to 5 GHz supporting DDR3-2133 RAM:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piledriver_%28microarchitecture%29

So don't handwave-away AMD with "they are doing that too", today you CAN have
a non-backdoored modern high-performance CPU -- from AMD.

-- 
With respect,
Roman