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Episode #955 | 02 Jan 2024 | 102 min.
The Mystery of CVE-2023-38606

After everyone is updated with the state of my still-continuing work on SpinRite 6.1, and after I've shared a bit of feedback from our listeners, the entire balance of this first podcast of 2024 will be invested in the close and careful examination of the technical details surrounding something that has never before been found in Apple's custom proprietary silicon. As we will all see and understand by the time we're finished here today, it is something that can only be characterized as a deliberately designed, implemented and protected backdoor that was intended to be, and was, let loose and present in the wild. After we all understand what Apple has done through five successive generations of their silicon, today's podcast ends, as it must, by posing a single one-word question: Why?
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