[PatchMonkey]

Those undocumented features & byte code? HAP mode - something the NSA doesnt want you to know exists, but that they had put into intelME from Skylake onward.

But yet and still we found out. So yes, this security through obscurity approach is terrible (with a code embargo being the obvious exception).

They only update microcode when they have to. When doing otherwise risks... Well, this kind of mess.

You dont wanna know how many times I've rebuilt my gentoo system chasing after retpoline kernel & gcc builds that just... Break everything.

It should be interesting to see how it all develops