As I said above; I think I didn't make my point clear enough: my concern was not about it making it easier to be comprised, but about it making the clean up pretty impossible, on a hardware level.
Software do-over is a very well accepted solution (don't bother cleaning the rootkit, just format reinstall), but hardware do-over (change the cpu) is going to be a hard pill to swallow.
Software do-over is a very well accepted solution (don't bother cleaning the rootkit, just format reinstall), but hardware do-over (change the cpu) is going to be a hard pill to swallow.