Re: [tor-relays] Exploiting firmware

On Wed, 7 Dec 2016 22:50:39 +0000 Alex Haydock alex@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.