alt Hacker NewsIs there some evidence that x86 is uniquely prone to exploitable memory corruption? I haven't seen it, if so.
> That's why Huawei and the Chinese government aren't even trying any more to make western CPU architectures secure, it's a hopeless cause.
I suspect there are much more boring reasons for this, ranging from licensing to geopolitics (i.e., it being useful/valuable to have a domestic base of engineers who can design an ISA).
The paper X86 considered harmful was about how the BIOS / Intel management Engine (now also AMD PSP), are completely opaque.
If the lowest layer is hidden, proprietary, there are infinite vectors for state actors to include their desired backdoors.