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by wren6991 533 days ago
If the RISC-V cores were removed, the bit assignment for the critical OTP flags would be different. Quite likely this attack would then have directly enabled Secure debug access to the Arm cores.

Whoever wrote that headline lacked even a cursory understanding of the attack. You can do better by watching Aedan Cullen's excellent 38C3 presentation for yourself.