[Zathras]

Defiantly NOT true.
This is rumor is probably related to Intel’s attempt to create a very secure system back in the 90’s based on the internal thermal sensor.
The NSA used its influence to fabricate a story so the project was abandoned and we ended up with AES which given enough time, the NSA can break.

I worked for the Intel processor design team for 20 years.

[Dr. Sivana]

I remember back when Intel wanted to put unique serial #s on each 80486 processor that could be identified outside the box, that privacy advocates cried foul.

Since then, that seems like nothing.

[Angelino97]

The NSA used its influence to fabricate a story so the project was abandoned and we ended up with AES which given enough time, the NSA can break.

So then, the Intel CPU is vulnerable to NSA snoping?