• Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de
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    4 hours ago

    Mmh… but this concept only fully works on Open-Source hardware, doesn’t it? Otherwise the microcode or CPU itself could still be an attack vector to infect the bootstrapped compiler?

    (Genuinely curious, I have no clue)

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      2 hours ago

      That would be the deeply classified Nexus Intruder Program that no one has yet solved. Which would be hardware that infects software that in turn infects the next generation of hardware.