On 09-11-17 02:24, Rick Moen wrote:
Vaughan-Nichols's article is at
http://www.zdnet.com/article/minix-intels-hidden-in-chip-operating-system/
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Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 17:19:35 -0800
From: Rick Moen <r...@linuxmafia.com>
To: skep...@linuxmafia.com
Subject: Re: [skeptic] MINIX: ?Intel's hidden in-chip operating system
Organization: If you lived here, you'd be $HOME already.
Quoting Scott Peterson (scot...@mindspring.com), citing a mostly good
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols's ZDnet article:
Buried deep inside your computer's Intel chip is the MINIX operating
system and a software stack, which includes networking and a web
server. It's slow, hard to get at, and insecure as insecure can be.
[...]
Garrett's AMT FAQ makes good reading for people wanting to know more.
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/48429.html?thread=1840429
This includes the fact that by _no_ means do all Intel chipsets
possessing ME firmware also have AMT code that runs on it -- and how to
query your machine to find out if it does. Most Intel systems don't
have AMT. Most Intel systems with AMT don't have it turned on.
It also includes the fact that the biggest concern is remote access to
the AMT. If that isn't enabled, and there are various ways to ensure
that it isn't, that concern (a remote backdoor) goes away.
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When reading
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/09/chipzilla_come_closer_closer_listen_dump_ime/
where some claim to be able to access ME via USB ports I wonder how long
it takes before ME is enabled and abused by malware.
Grtz
Nick
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