[tannerbrockwell]

https://www.zdnet.com/article/minix-intels-hidden-in-chip-op...

[gambiting]

"These processors are running a closed-source variation of the open-source MINIX 3. We don't know exactly what version or how it's been modified"

You'd hope the version they use has been worked on in the last 5 years.

[lmm]

Or maybe you'd hope it hasn't - if there are holes in it then you've got a better chance of being able to regain control of your own hardware.

[jethro_tell]

So does everyone else.

Hoping that intel drops the ball on your processors security in what is likely a high dollar research area for most nation states is not a great play.

In theory you can just turn it off in your bios but, who knows?

[doctor_eval]

> You'd hope the version they use has been worked on in the last 5 years.

And yet, so many hopes are dashed.