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		philjohn on Sept 21, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've use... How do you know that the closed CPU microcode that all modern AMD and Intel CPU's use don't have backdoors and vulnerabilities?

fsflover on Sept 21, 2021 [–]

I don't know that, but judging from the amount of code I would say it's less likely than in Intel ME.

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