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Intel Confirms Vulnerability In Intel AMT/ME
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Originally posted by M@GOid View PostIntel said this do not affect home computers, but what about the Thinkpads Lenovo sells? Mine have this thing, witch I disabled last year as soon as I knew about it being in my T430.
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Originally posted by torsionbar28 View Post
Doubtful. Obama's NSA was targeting domestic consumers. Domestic consumers don't use the business peecee's that have this feature, and foreign entities will be behind many firewalls so the feature isn't exposed. ... As fond as Obama was of spying on us, getting a backdoor into the Windows OS is a lower cost proposition and would give broader results than a business pc firmware exploit.
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Now would be a REALLY good time for AMD to open up their PSP and collaborate with the OpenBSD and other security-focused developers.
HINT HINT HINT.
Or, y'know, they can just join Intel in loosing business to the eoma68 project, OpenPOWER systems, or even the AmigaOne X5000.
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Originally posted by sarfarazahmad View PostWill setting rpi as a firewall/gateway on my wifi network ensure that this doesn't get outside this lan network ?
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Originally posted by M@GOid View PostIntel said this do not affect home computers, but what about the Thinkpads Lenovo sells? Mine have this thing, witch I disabled last year as soon as I knew about it being in my T430.
They are businness-class laptops, so it's normal that they have businness-class features like AMT. Same for other businness-class laptops and mobile workstations.
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Originally posted by starshipeleven View PostFYI: Thinkpads aren't exactly for home.
They are businness-class laptops, so it's normal that they have businness-class features like AMT. Same for other businness-class laptops and mobile workstations.
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Originally posted by artivision View PostThe Management Engine is everywhere and not only inside business class hardware. It is running on a level of rights higher than your kernel.
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Originally posted by ssokolow View Post
For example, consumer-grade Macs do movie decoding on the ME as a DRM measure and, given that PAVP (Protected Audio/Video Pipeline) is a term I first heard in the context of Windows Vista, I'm assuming Windows does likewise.
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In case you don't know about it, https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner is a tool that allows you to erase as much of the ME's code as possible from your motherboard's firmware flash. It erases the ME's OS and drivers, so pretty much all the security concerns should be neutralised. It only leaves the bare minimum ME code needed to initialise and boot the PC.
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