Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs(github.com)
351 points by epestr | 95 comments
GitHub repository for Project Rosenbridge by xoreaxeaxeax, documenting and demonstrating a hardware backdoor found in some x86 CPUs.
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Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA backdoor(twitter.com)
1135 points by moyix | 547 comments
A tweet by cryptographer Matthew Green sharing a Snowden document excerpt naming Cavium as a SIGINT-enabled CPU vendor, used in routers like the UniFi USG3.