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by A4ET8a8uTh0 1348 days ago
To me personally, the weirdest part about this whole story is Intel's response:

"Our proprietary UEFI code appears to have been leaked by a third party. We do not believe this exposes any new security vulnerabilities as we do not rely on obfuscation of information as a security measure. This code is covered under our bug bounty program within the Project Circuit Breaker campaign, and we encourage any researchers who may identify potential vulnerabilities to bring them our attention through this program. We are reaching out to both customers and the security research community to keep them informed of this situation." — Intel spokesperson.

It is almost as if they are expecting some major holes to exist and just per-emptively attempt to defuse it.