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> It is an interesting attack but is the above goal ever achievable? To protect against adversaries from the inside.

Yes. To expand: to a function on the CPU an administrator is just another user. The Operating System is responsible for managing those designations.

These trusted computing pieces across all kinds of CPUs are specifically aimed at protecting against people with host-root, so it would seem like it's a goal they've set for themselves and should be reasonably achievable.




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