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Minix: Intel's hidden in-chip operating system (2017)
- xrayarx 4y agoThis is the single reason for many companies to move to arm or other cpu architectures.
- sc68cal 4y agoYou assume there isn't similar features on different architectures, or market pressure to implement these, if not already present
- tibbydudeza 4y agoYou do know that for example the ARM based Qualcomm baseband processor on your board doing your bluetooth/WiFi/LTE runs is own RTOS ???. If you that worried about snooping then become an ARM licensee and spin your own cores.
- locust495 4y agoA lot of ARM CPU run some sort of L4 microkernel family OS so ....
- RunSet 4y agoNever enough spotlight on Intel Management Engine. Disgusting that Intel built a backdoor into everyone's computer and then only sold the U.S. government hardware without it. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/hardware/researchers-find-a-way-to-disable-much-hated-intel-me-component-courtesy-of-the-nsa/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/hardware/researchers-f... More disgusting still, the backdoor has backdoors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine#Security_vulnerabilities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine#Securi...
- LouDNL 4y agoWell thats unsettling
- tibbydudeza 4y agoAs Scott McNealy from Sun stated in 1999 - You have zero privacy anyway … Get over it!
- leoh 4y agoThis is talking about chips with AMT, which not all intel chips have. Do we know if there’s still something like minix running on non-AMT chips?