On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Ben Mendis <[email protected]> wrote: > Indeed, vPro can only work if the adversary is on the same network > segment and send packets that the NIC can hear. We're all professionals > here, we know that security works in layers. If you stick a $25 router > in front of your box then there's no way for those vPro control packets > to reach your NIC, so there's no way for vPro to get activated.
Going further, every technology like vPro that I've taken the time to study has _explicitly_ made use of a non-routable protocol for communications as a security measure. Meaning they don't work over the internet _by design_, and only work on local networks. --tim _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
