The recent AMT/vPro exploit[1] has helped shine a light on this problem. Has anybody seen any evidence that anything is changing though, either in what vendors are offering or in terms of how companies buy technology?
Over the last few years, people have been trained to separate their laptops for security scanning at airports. More recently, some airports are opening/waking the laptops before they go through the x-ray: while ME doesn't require a computer to be on, maybe some vulnerabilities/back-doors can only be exploited while it is awake? It is not hard to imagine some of these x-ray machines may be designed to exploit vulnerabilities like that which was recently acknowledged by Intel. Has anybody seen any evidence that this is taking place systematically? Then again, would there be anything special about exploiting them at airports? Would a chain of fast food or coffee stores "enhance" their wifi access points to access the ME capabilities of laptops brought into their premises or has anybody noticed if that is already happening? Regards, Daniel 1. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/intel-amt-vulnerability-announcement.html _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
