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Basically there's a master key that allows reading blocks that are supposed to be unreadable.

> put in there on purpose by the manufacturer

Hard to prove "on purpose" either way, my guess it was for debugging.

If they put it there for debugging it certainly qualifies as "on purpose". No matter what the reasoning behind it was.

Technically. I'm saying there's a huge difference between what a layman might read "large org conspires to spy" and a possible dull reality of "some engineer neglects to remove convenience feature".

40 years ago, maybe. Today, no.

(but hey, taking Croudstrike into account, everything is possible)

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