I see CPU manufacturers being taken aback by the negative publicity this receives and eliminating such "features" from their coding. There's nothing about virtualization that requires phantom operating systems which you cannot diagnose, influence or even detect.
The Sony Rootkit farce in the 1990s was just like this, an injection of foreign code into Windows, undetectable, omnipotent, both malevolent and inviting other malware to join its party and share its invisibility cloak while they had total domination of the computer. When exposed by Mark Russonovich, Sony lost billions of dollars, both in fines, damages and business. (seems to be some kind of sentence construction error there...) To this day I will not buy a Sony product.
This is MUCH worse. Hopefully both AMD's and Intel's reactions will be very different from Sony's stonewalling, deception and denial.
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