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So, funnily enough, there's a secret ME disable that Intel made specifically because someone at the CIA or NSA got cold feet about the whole "secondary boot-up
by kmeisthax 4y ago
So, funnily enough, there's a secret ME disable that Intel made specifically because someone at the CIA or NSA got cold feet about the whole "secondary boot-up processor that can pwn the main processor cores" thing.
- RunSet 4y agoIt is telling that the feds are unwilling to eat their own cooking. Although "disable" is not the same as "remove" it is better than nothing. https://www.ptsecurity.com/ww-en/analytics/disabling-intel-me-11-via-undocumented-mode/ https://www.ptsecurity.com/ww-en/analytics/disabling-intel-m...
- kmeisthax 4y agoI don't even think it's the Fed's cooking. Large enterprises were asking for a way to detect, wipe, and reset a compromised machine, remotely, while the compromised OS was still running. Intel ME was their solution to this.
- RunSet 4y agoIf it was not intended as a universal backdoor I think there would be some way for the hardware's owner to disable it or buy hardware without the baked-in backdoor.