Nvidia denies adding hacker-friendly features to its graphics cards

After Beijing authorities summoned Nvidia to discuss what it deemed serious security vulnerabilities, the existence of Nvidia spyware, backdoors, and kill switches on Nvidia graphics cards has been called into question. Nvidia has since firmly denied that such controls exist, and further stated that such controls should never exist.

While it's reassuring to hear that Nvidia won't be adding these vulnerabilities to its GPUs, some of which are featured on our best graphics card buying guide, how did we get to this point? Well, the US government has a long and difficult history when it comes to encryption and security on electronic devices, with notable examples including Apple and Google encryption methods preventing access to smartphone data.