They deployed an AI ban bot didn't they?

Just wrap the lede in bacon and put in the oven for 30 minutes.

If people have been burying the lede for centuries, why don't we find ledes when we go digging in the garden?

The offer was a function of years of service. I ended up getting about a year of pay. Technically I 'retired from Intel' in the sense that I met the retirement criteria. So I left with the full pension intact and access to the retiree services. It's a few years before that comes online though.

I've been living off that pot of money since. It's a hefty sum, so it's enough to effectively day trade. I do a bit of trading on the stock market most mornings and I've kept the pot of money maintained and even up a little with profits from trading to pay living expenses. I aim for about 1% a day. This is less risky than it sounds. My skills in random time series analysis are highly transferable skills. Tax was a lot this year (wages + payoff + serp + capital gains + my wife's business making a surprise profit) so my trading project for this month is to make that money back. I'm half way there. It will be less next year with wages gone.

So I'm not going at a minimum lifestyle. I'm just maintaining the one I had.

I've started a company and I'm doing consulting in the area of FIPS140 and ESV certification and secure hardware design. That hasn't paid out yet but it will. Contracts take a while to complete. More importantly, working for myself is a lot more satisfying. I'm back to spending more time designing (cryptographic hardware) that I am having meetings. I attended ICMC in Toronto for the first time in a decade and presented a paper at SPACE2024 in Kerala in India in December. Intel declined to pay for that travel when I worked there despite those events being central to my role. They saw the cost of travel, not the opportunity cost lost. I'm squeezing out another book also. I'm keeping busy.

I took the offer and left Intel a few months ago. I had been there 21 years.

Intel used to be a nice company to work at. You could do good work, travel, accomplish stuff, put your designs on the most advanced silicon processes and feel happy that you were having an impact on the world.

Then, year after year, with penny pinching, bureaucracy and a long sequence of shifting management, they slowly sucked all the fun out of working there. So I had no qualms about choosing to leave. I had decided to wait until the next generous "please leave with this pot of cash" and take it. The offer came with the recent voluntary layoffs, so I took it.

The management very much lost the plot on how to enable engineers to do their job.
 

>All the big expensive CAD or PCB layout packages won't even bother with builds for Apple. AutoCAD did come out with one some years back. I'd love to do PCB layout on a nice 5k retina display (Yes I know about KiCad).

KiCad is so much nicer than Mentor or Allegro. Now that I don't have a huge corporation for pay for the software license, KiCad has become my board software of choice.

>but it sucks that it's the only selling point.

The ability to have the keyboard in the middle (like Macs do) is a selling point for me.
The ability to replace the battery is a big selling point. I swapped the battery in my Macbook pro and it was a multi hour struggle, rated as the highest difficulty on iFixIt.
It's not HP. That's a big one.

So selling points abound. That's why I got one.

I have. An Israeli border guard asked me to open my laptop and show documents that substantiate my claim that I work for the company I was visiting in Israel.

I entered the US yesterday YYZ-DEN without showing any credential. I went in the global entry line, a camera took my photo and I went on my way.
If you sign up for that, that's fine. I did. It's convenient to skip the passport line and I travel often.

I still print my boarding pass every time. If I'm returning from a trip so don't have access to a printer, I'll get the machine or the staff to print one at the airport.
I'm as techy as they come, but phones are not reliable and I'm not relying on them for a boarding pass.
I also doubt that airlines have the technical competence to do facial recognition reliably. The global entry people manage it but they have a smaller set of faces and opt-in.

Framework laptops are the current high point for hardware that does what you need.

1) Repairable
2) 6 Pluggable I/Os so you can have the interfaces you need

I'm typing this on my Framework laptop in PDX airport, running Linux.

To quote a senior person within a western intelligence agency, "If the things happening on the internet were happening in the physical world, it would be a shooting war".

That was 10 years ago. It hasn't got better since. Quite the opposite.

It's naive to go around thinking there isn't a number of groups of governments engaging in a protracted and coordinated cyber war. The criminals are at it too and there is much overlap between the two.

>My understanding was Lip left the board because he strongly disagreed with what Gelsinger was doing.

Gelsinger wanted an integrated company - design and manufacturing.
Lots of other people wanted to separate manufacturing from design. Design wanted to separate IP from full chip design.

I've worked in Cadence and I've worked in Intel. My sentiments are with the separators. The factories need to learn how to provide a good foundry service. The IP groups need to sell their IPs on the open market and compete like any other. The full chip design groups need to make compelling products and use the fabs that work best for them. The integrated model meant Intel was slowed down by the weakest part of the business. A 3X risk.

My assumption is that Lip is going to open the path to splitting the company and that is why he was chosen. The separators have taken over the building.

This is all supposition. I don't work there any more.

No, you didn't.
Fuck off, now.

Read the 802.11 spec and the 802.16 spec and you will see my name there in the list of contributors. It was several years of my career working on wireless communication protocols followed by several years solving the problems with randomness in those protocols.

The verbiage was on a slide presentation where the 'security' company were claiming they found a back door with remote access. They did not. I saw the headline, read the slides, then it took a couple of days for to dig in and work out it was just normal vendor HCI commands.

So their verbiage wasted a lot of people's time.
 

The published attack is not an attack via the radio interface.
If it were, then it would be a big problem for anyone.

Since I had a hand in the design of the security protocols of 802.11, 802.16 and Bluetooth, I'm familiar with how a vendor might put in a backdoor on the wireless side. A competent one could do it without it being easy to detect. It's a good thing I didn't put a backdoor in the products I've been involved in.

>And you think someone needs to be connected to the same network as you to interact with the lower layers?

No. I think that is a prerequisite. You have to break a bunch of other things too. In the case of my network, that would be home-assistant, which probably has holes but I make it more difficult than a default install.

Then you would need to use residence on HA to mess with the code on the attached devices which would be easy because HA updates firmware on the devices all the time.

A resourceful hacker (i.e. they are getting paid to do it) could engineer the second two steps. The first step is the hardest because it's designed to be hard.