On Thu, 10 Mar 2016 11:28:46 +0100 aitor_czr <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've been reading in Internet and now i'm more informed and more > confused. It's not a single board computer, but the Penguin Pocket > Wee GNU: > > https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-pocket-wee-gnu-linux-desktop > > from Think Penguin is very small and fully supports libre software. AFAIK all modern Intel chipsets come with a feature called "management engine" (or similar), which is basically the ultimate rootkit platform in hardware resp. firmware, with lowest level ("Ring -3") NIC, RAM and CPU access, even when the system is powered down. I guess, regarding sustainable open source development, the Intel (the whole x86?!) train is gone - too far for only wasting a thought on trying to catch it. Some results of a quick web search: http://me.bios.io/ME:About http://blog.invisiblethings.org/papers/2015/x86_harmful.pdf (chapter 4) https://recon.cx/2014/video/recon2014-02-igor-skochinsky-Intel-Management-Engine-Secrets.mp4 Florian _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
