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Intel ME is a blob written by Intel however and all OEMs uses the same one. I'd bet on UEFI code being worse than the Intel ME firmware.
by yuhong 10y ago
Intel ME is a blob written by Intel however and all OEMs uses the same one. I'd bet on UEFI code being worse than the Intel ME firmware.
- reality_czech 10y agoIsn't this kind of like arguing over which brand of hot dog has more pink slime and factory floor sweepings? They all do. Anyway, ME is likely to be a much higher value target for hackers. A compromise there would compromise millions of PCs, whereas a UEFI hack would be specific to one vendor.
- yuhong 10y agoObviously, but UEFI tends to cause more of the practical problems and attacks, including non-security ones and DoS attacks (some of which is easy to do under Windows).