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How the hell does one hide and then use a backdoor in ram?
But did you think about China Bad™?
You add a piece of code that scans for a specific very big prime number and if it finds that, you look for any process and inject into stdlibc any backdoor of your choice
You add a piece of code (to ram, which famously does not hold information while unpowered).
Which scans for a specific very big prime number (finding large primes quickly would completely invalidate the world’s cryptography and therefore banking, that’s why people are afraid of the quantum boogeyman).
You look for any process and inject into stdlibc any backdoor of your choice (just any process, doesn’t need elevated permissions, assuming they use libc, assuming the backdoor hasn’t been patched out from the other end, defeated by any of the dozens of software integrity checks that have become standard).
could have a chip that looks for a certain sequence of bytes then changes some other bytes as a result... it would probably introduce massive latency though...
Hang on, I’m gonna add a suspicious new component onto a part that is incredibly expensive and heavily scrutinized specifically for speed and latency that will bit bash the I/o.