[ExI] Revealed: how Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages

[Adrian Tymes]

On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 10:37 PM, Andrew Mckee <andymck35 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 12 Jul 2013 10:03:45 +1200, J.R. Jones <mrjones2020 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>  What OS do you run?
>>
>
> Technically irrelevant if you happen to be using an Intel cpu of recent
> vintage, since they each come with a network accessible backdoor in its on
> chip microcode rom.
>

Source?  That smells like something people claim, but things actually don't
work that way.  TCP/IP parts of most systems are separate from the CPU -
and are, in fact, part of the OS.
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