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Is the Intel FSP blob a backdoor?
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By its limited scope of just initializing the chip, it seems a lot more benign than Intel ME, which would be a jucier target than the FSP. But no independent audit has been completed on it to my knowledge. Purism got started with an attempt to reverse-engineer it (legitimately without the leaked code!), but Intel told them to take it down, which is a bit troubling.
I wonder if anyone got the archive of that article.
Here's a couple:
https://archive.is/CBIzS
https://archive.is/TR1W4
Thank you!