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Remember that we have no idea whether Windows and Intel processors with IME (and AMD processors since Ryzen ?) don't have built-in backdoors (And Macs have been
by BlueTemplar 6y ago
Remember that we have no idea whether Windows and Intel processors with IME (and AMD processors since Ryzen ?) don't have built-in backdoors (And Macs have been using Intel exclusively for years now, haven't-they ?). So nothing very new here, really...
https://blog.invisiblethings.org/papers/2015/x86_harmful.pdf https://blog.invisiblethings.org/papers/2015/x86_harmful.pdf
- tpush 6y agoApple disables most of Intel's ME [0]. [0] https://support.apple.com/guide/security/uefi-firmware-overview-seced055bcf6/web https://support.apple.com/guide/security/uefi-firmware-overv...
- BlueTemplar 6y agoInteresting... though they don't give a date. Was it 2006, 2017... a gradual process since 2006 ?
- chungus_khan 6y agoIt's still in use for DRM though apparently, and so long as it still runs, and so long as we still can't audit it, it isn't trustworthy from a strict privacy perspective.
- jaywalk 6y agoI don't believe the IME has anything to do with DRM. That would be TPM.
- chungus_khan 6y agoFrom the above linked Apple page: > The primary use of the ME is audio and video copyright protection on Mac computers that have only Intel-based graphics.