According to Silicon Valley expert Steve Blank, it is expected that the National Security Agency (NSA) will secure access to Intel and AMD processors via Windows security updates. This allows you to control and monitor the computers completely. Steve Blank enjoys a high reputation in Silicon Valley and is considered a great expert on microprocessors and computer chips.
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Steve Blank is a co-founder of eight different companies and teaches at Stanford University. According to the Australian Financial Review, he has already written for the Harvard Business Review and the Wall Street Journal, and has been nominated by Forbes as one of the 30 most influential people in technological advancement.
When he learned that Microsoft made NSA access to encrypted emails under PRISM, he came to the conclusion that the NSA had to have access to the hardware from just about any computer. Through various Microsoft updates and patches, it is possible to repair computer chips automatically, without having to exchange them. For this, a microcode is used, with which the chip can be reprogrammed by various patches.
After the NSA seems to have left out quite a way to penetrate and spy the communication possibilities of the people, it is obvious that AMD and Intel are also affected. They offer the NSA with the greatest potential. So it is "either the only good guys," according to Steve Blank, according to the Financial Review. Or the NSA has found a way to use the updates to access most PCs.
Steve Blank is of the opinion that the intelligence service could use the codes of the updates, through a backdoor, camouflaged as a security update, to selectively scan individual computers. This would not have to be aimed at the entire mass. This would be the only way to control the entire Internet as most people use Intel and AMD processors.
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