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37C3 video shows hardcoded backdoor on Apple ARM chips

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These guys show a hard coded backdoor into Apple ARM chips. It can neither be removed nor be patched

https://youtube.com/watch?v=1f6YyH62jFE

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Which part is FUD? It sounds like Marcan is acknowledging that this is a hardware issue, and refuting the idea that it's unpatchable by proposing software limitations to avoid upsetting the IOMMU. It seems like the bug will persist at a hardware/firmware level, and relies on the kernel to know what MMIO ranges are faulty.

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