[SAI_Peregrinus]

Christopher Domas does some very cool work. His System Management Mode exploit a few years back was quite nice. It will be interesting to see which processor it is that he found the ring 3 hard lockup instruction in...

[rasz]

He works for spooks - Battelle Memorial Institute, a long-time NSA/CIA contractor. One of the places that hires officially retired spies.

[azinman2]

and therefore.... ?

[qb45]

Therefore there is suspicion that spooks may have been using that for years and revealed it once they've had enough for some reason. I'm not familiar with any proven case of such situation, but people speculate.