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assembly language is not an extremely concrete representation of a program if the hardware is engineered with backdoors which is exactly what this article sugge
by pg_is_a_butt 13y ago
assembly language is not an extremely concrete representation of a program if the hardware is engineered with backdoors which is exactly what this article suggests is happening.
if some specific set of registers is set a certain way followed by a very specific series of commands, there is no practical way to prove that the hardware is doing what it should.
- tptacek 13y agoYou are talking about a wildly different threat model than this little section of the thread is talking about. Meanwhile: if you can't trust the hardware, you can't trust C code either.