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I don't appreciate the degree to which this article conflates MINIX and IME. >Google wants to remove MINIX from its internal servers No, Google wants to remov
by Sir_Cmpwn 9y ago
I don't appreciate the degree to which this article conflates MINIX and IME.
>Google wants to remove MINIX from its internal servers
No, Google wants to remove IME from its internal servers. They don't care that it's MINIX.
>But MINIX has total and complete access to the entirety of your computer. All of it.
You mean IME.
MINIX is really cool operating system, even if it's being used for evil. But other operating systems are used for evil, too. MINIX has nothing to do with the fact that Intel put it on their secondary processors and ran a bunch of nasty services on it.
- cormacrelf 9y agoIME has 'total and access', but so does MINIX, it would appear. Relevantly, MINIX is what you would exploit to break into Ring -3. The article conflates them deliberately.
- microcolonel 9y agoOn MINIX, you would more likely compromise a process like the file system, and then induce a privileged service to fail, causing the reincarnation server to read your version of that privileged service from the file system; that is, assuming they haven't introduced pervasive load-time signature verification for this version.
- wiz21c 9y agoPoor Andrew, now his tool is used for evil... Maybe he should have chosen his license more carefully ? Maybe he sold his soul to the devil to beat Linus ? Or maybe he doesn't care, in which case, he may read : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_ethics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_ethics It sounds harsh, I know, but in the age of computers, these questions do matter (imho).
- Sir_Cmpwn 9y agoLinux is used for evil, too. More pervasively than MINIX, I bet.