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I wish that they would just publish that "hack" into the public, that way people would hopefully understand the dangers of "black boxes" and maybe even push int

I wish that they would just publish that "hack" into the public, that way people would hopefully understand the dangers of "black boxes" and maybe even push intel and AMD to remove ME and PSP from their products. I wish that open hardware (CPUS specifically) were more popular and closer to the market. RISC-V is still quite a long way off for everyday use (though I did see a risc-v based arduino thing, which is nice)

tomxor 9y ago
I think if the hack were published we can expect some things from intel with reasonable degree of certainty: 1. They would have to respond publicly (to the general public not just dev community). 2. Somewhat less satisfyingly I expect their first action wont be to issue some kind of widespread automatic disarm of ME, but instead just patch it. They are unlikely to receive the message as "this is insecure by design" and more likely to interpret it as "there was a small bug in out very marketable management engine, we will patch it and all will be fine in the world". Unfortunately the general public wont appreciate the difference and perceive intel to have had a "hicup" which is exactly what intel would want of course, because it's the same general public which make the biggest dent in buying up all those intel-inside stickers.