> The technology behind this story is serious and interesting
Which is why, at the end of this article, I suddenly went "what?!" when I read:
"And researchers will not probably hunt for similar JTAG backdoors in other chips."
If there's one good thing to come of all this fearmongering, it is that chips will be subjected to more scrutiny. Hopefully someday chips are much more open, standardized, and well documented. That's a long way off, but there are many reasons to hope it might happen.
I don't know, maybe I read that sentence wrong. Maybe the author meant, "researchers will, not probably, but for sure hunt for backdoors."
Which is why, at the end of this article, I suddenly went "what?!" when I read:
"And researchers will not probably hunt for similar JTAG backdoors in other chips."
If there's one good thing to come of all this fearmongering, it is that chips will be subjected to more scrutiny. Hopefully someday chips are much more open, standardized, and well documented. That's a long way off, but there are many reasons to hope it might happen.
I don't know, maybe I read that sentence wrong. Maybe the author meant, "researchers will, not probably, but for sure hunt for backdoors."