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by gosub100 958 days ago
> Cosmic rays and thermal effects

now put your tinfoil hat on and suppose you worked for a paramilitary organization that had infiltrated the top 2 semiconductor manufacturers. You persuade the silicon designers, when implementing hardware accelerated crypto (or "management engines") to not do their jobs quite perfectly, no just leave room for a tiny bit of....error. Could never happen, right?