Researchers Spot Silicon-Level Hardware Trojans in Chips

[andreareina]

Researchers develop techniques to spot hardware trojans.

[ElfinTrousers]

I assume that most or all of the common CPUs you can buy today include backdoors inserted at the request of one intelligence agency or another.

[exabrial]

Seems like two things are in direct conflict: On one hand, a company needs to protect it's IP and prevent China from outright copying it's designs and selling without the R&D cost attached. On the other hand, but publishing it's designs, it can be verified as safe by anyone.

[ElfinTrousers]

By publishing their designs, anyone can verify the _published_ design as safe. That doesn't necessarily mean that the chips that are actually manufactured are according to that design.