I got a headache just reading a few sentences. So for the technologically challenged what does all this mean and what should we do? Get out the old typewriter? Can anyone provide a reader’s digest version to the article or should I just count myself as stupid.
It means that the CPU you may be relying upon depending upon its manufacturing origin might have a hidden CPU installed at the fabrication point which could potentially expose the end-user to various hacks that no manner of x86 commands can ever rescue you from since it is an entirely different manner of device installed alongside your standard hardware.
Think as if someone had installed a “maccomputer IC” at the factory within your x86 CPU (Appleusers, I know -I am simply illustrating a point not making any manner of claim, so right then?) that ran mac-commands if instructed to without your approval or in some cases without your knowledge, and you may begin to understand why some of us find this so worrisome...
It means nothing and you should do nothing. It’s really only in business computers, it’s for some business apps, your home computer probably doesn’t even have it, and even if it does you’ve got nothing talking to it.