here's reporter jordan robinson. >> we are writing this week about a researcher, a cybersecurity researcherland. he is the have a top job at intel security, hacking their microprocessors. what he has found his this, his research shows the meltdown from january which affected all of the world's processors. he is able to go a level deeper. what that means is that those vulnerabilities were really bad, and it gets worse. carol: will that's it. really going into the core of how a computer works, this is deep stuff. >> when we think of computers, we think of stuff we interact with. that's not what he is concerned about. he is concerned about the firmware. most people don't know what that is, but it's the code that exists inside the chips on your computer. and what he has discovered is a way to use these hardware exploits to get inside the firmware of your computer, and that's where all the secrets are stored. jason: and you mentioned that he works at intel, and i want everybody to understand, the company that has all of these chips inside so many computers. those are in personal computers, chips