Re: How secure is an installation with with no non-free packages?
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Pedro Worcel <pedro@worcel.com> wrote:
>> Who said they improve security? We don't know what they are. And I doubt
>> they will patch a backdoor at this moment, specially when you don't know
>> what the hell they have in your hardware. So my guess is that it's more
>> likely their microcode is inserting a backdoor instead of patching it
>
> Are there some sort of release notes for these patches?
Not really, with Intel life is pretty vague and closed off, unless
they're busy doing propaganda:
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=23166&keyword=%22microcode%22&lang=eng
that's about what you get...
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