[backdoors](https://www.csoonline.com/article/3220476/researchers-say-now-you-too-can-disable-intel-me-backdoor-thanks-to-the-nsa.html) that bad actors
regularly exploit.
-But beyond the contemporary ever increasing cry for privacy, is a very real need for reliable safety critical processors.
+But beyond the contemporary ever increasing cry for privacy, is a very real need for reliable safety critical processors(think airplane, smart car, pacemaker...).
LibreSOC poses to you that it is impossible to trust a processor in a safety critical environment without both access
to that processor's source and a cycle accurate HDL simulator that guarantees developers their code behaves as they
expect. An ISA level simulator is no longer satisfactory.