All AMD Processors Since Phenom II Have BadBIOS Circuitry That Leaks to the Military

submitted by nsopegasusyou from self.conspiracy

Title gives my conclusion from empirical events I witnessed and inside info. PSP runs on the same circuit, but isn't the backdoor per se, which has been around for much longer.

Just like AMD was able to change the crypto algorithms for the Zen chip they licensed to China, they can change how the CPU behaves at any system, even those already deployed. This can be used to sabotage any program or computation, making BadBIOS (uses radio, not sound) vastly nastier than StuxNet.

American military made a grave mistake by giving access to the morons of the Brazilian military, who are letting knowledge of this spread like a fire (and misusing it for petty profit and inside jobs to justify a police state). Israel, UK and France also have access, but are much more professional.

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[–]LarrySwinger2 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

I'm so glad we can do something about these backdoors. My PC has an Intel chip and I neutralized the ME. Here's my post.

[–]blowininthewind 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

ah a bios leak. that's kinda a nightmare scenario. but in this case as long as you're not doing anything anti-military you'd be fine? except when there's a guy in the military, sysadmin maybe who's willing to give that information to outsiders (politicians, foreign agencies, etc.) then all amd users are fucked.

not that intel's got any problem, none that i believed in at least.

[–]nsopegasusyou[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Ed Calderon has gone on many podcasts to tell how Mexico's cartels got complete info on US agents and that he believes the info was given to them from insiders on US intelligence.

[–]blowininthewind 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

oh no i thought at worst they're leaking to intelligences of other nations, not cartels.

[–]infocom6502 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

you forget the Piledriver related chips, eg FX 83xx, 63xx, etc, as well as the Piledriver APUs, eg A8-5500, Ax-5xxx, Ax-6xxx. These are free of a PSP.