Our guess is that this unknown hardware feature was most likely intended to be used for debugging or testing purposes by Apple engineers or the factory, or that it was included by mistake. Because this feature is not used by the firmware, we have no idea how attackers would know how to use it.
https://securelist.com/operation-triangulation-the-last-hardware-mystery/111669/
Operation Triangulation: The last (hardware) mystery | …if this turns out to be an NSA-enabling backdoor, Apple’s security reputation will be toast
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[…] when I look at Apple, and there’s an apparent hardware debugging widget in the memory which can be driven by undocumented…, for a device which they are literally advertising as robust and secure, my reactions are […]
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