What’s most interesting about this article is that Intel’s Chief Thread Researcher left, formed a company, and Intel turned around and invested directly into it instead of slapping his departure and subsequent disclosure with some form of anti-compete or anti-disclosure clause.
At this level you can be sure there was something like this in his prior contract. A conspiracy theorist might surmise that Intel figured this a way of avoiding lawsuits against themselves, while opportunely positioning themselves to profit from whatever additional defensive techniques and services the newly formed “subsidiary” comes up with.
What’s most interesting about this article is that Intel’s Chief Thread Researcher left, formed a company, and Intel turned around and invested directly into it instead of slapping his departure and subsequent disclosure with some form of anti-compete or anti-disclosure clause.
At this level you can be sure there was something like this in his prior contract. A conspiracy theorist might surmise that Intel figured this a way of avoiding lawsuits against themselves, while opportunely positioning themselves to profit from whatever additional defensive techniques and services the newly formed “subsidiary” comes up with.
So… was it published?
https://blog.eclypsium.com/2018/05/17/system-management-mode-speculative-execution-attacks/
Spectre can be applied to System Management Mode. Intel believes existing mitigation works to prevent these attacks.