But my point is that since AMD is definitely working on that much harder task, there can be hardly any doubt that they also know all they wish to about how the competition's present crop of hardware works. If they need to know, they'll know. And the enemy knows the system.

Regardless of sillinesses like binary blobs.

By the way, today I read the local Finnish paper, Turun Sanomat, about the crackattack against Lockheed-Martin... and guess what term was used?
You don't have to know much, if anything, about how simple the Finnish phoneme-to-grapheme system is, to see from which term the word used - "krakkeri" - is derived
What a pleasant surprise, that's the first time I've seen that word in Finnish.
Here's a link to the online edition of that article http://www.ts.fi/online/ulkomaat/225796.html

And not only that, under the article there was a Fact-Box : "What do the terms mean:" which described the differences between hackers and crackers, right down to the ideals of the former. That didn't make it to the online edition though.
Someone is negotiating, and for once it's not the Rex Mundi