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Of these techs, which does AMD support? Would switching to AMD make us more secure?
by mycall 9y ago
Of these techs, which does AMD support? Would switching to AMD make us more secure?
- SXX 9y agoIt's answered in comments multiple times. Read about AMD PSP / ARM TrustZone.
- acdha 9y ago> Would switching to AMD make us more secure? That's not quite the right question: this is just standard use of a remote management feature which is disabled by default. If you enable any remote management service, which are extremely common on server class hardware and many enterprise desktop devices regardless of vendor, you have to take responsibility for securing the management features you enable. The only real news would be if this was enabled by default or if the design didn't allow it to be secured.
- microwavecamera 9y agoIt's not secure, that's the problem. AMT relies on security by obscurity.
- oneplane 9y agoIt also seems to rely on "unexpected functionality by buggy code". There were flaws in basic luxury functionality like JPEG parsing that allows anyone to overwrite certain pieces of memory regardless of it's signature or write protect bits. It was then used as a jumping pad to enter the ARC CPU and have total system control from there. Basically, unless you desolder the flash, it's a rootkit you can't get out.
- julian_1 9y agoNo AMD run an on-die ARM co-processor, with dma access to memory and memory-mapped hardware such as ethernet controllers.