Never mind us. Why should Intel trust Intel? Like any good computing company, I would imagine they are mostly self-hosting. The chips they built last year are the chips they use to run simulations and design the chips they put out next year. Backdoors can be exploited by any employee who knows about them, and it would be extraordinarily damaging for Intel to allow backdoors into hardware they depend on.
Even if they built in some sort of a kill-switch, how could anyone confidently say that a rogue engineer involved in the design couldn't bypass it and use the chip against Intel. Ultimately, I think there's so much danger that I have to assume Intel is competent enough not to do something so foolish as introduce deliberate backdoors.
Even if they built in some sort of a kill-switch, how could anyone confidently say that a rogue engineer involved in the design couldn't bypass it and use the chip against Intel. Ultimately, I think there's so much danger that I have to assume Intel is competent enough not to do something so foolish as introduce deliberate backdoors.