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> had a chip encrypted on the motherboard what does this mean?

by asystole 3y ago

dicknuckle 3y ago
It's typical techno-babble from fear-mongering media entities like Bloomberg and Daily Mail
consumer451 3y ago
I was also wondering what the heck that could possibly mean. I chalked it up to a journalist not being a true nerd.
rasz 3y ago
EC (embedded controller) in thinkpads is somewhat encrypted. EC among other things takes role of keyboard controller, and has access to big flash chip. Lenovo software does stuff behind your back all the time https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Security-Malware/BIOS-automatically-updated-without-warning-forced-reboot/m-p/3937410 https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Security-Malware/BIOS-automatic... UEFI BIOS can also initiate OS actions thru shitty MS mechanisms. You will love WPBT (Windows Platform Binary Table) https://www.howtogeek.com/226308/the-windows-platform-binary-table-why-crapware-can-come-back-after-a-clean-install/ https://www.howtogeek.com/226308/the-windows-platform-binary... "Beginning with Windows 8, a PC manufacturer can embed a program -- a Windows .exe file, essentially -- in the PC's UEFI firmware. This is stored in the "Windows Platform Binary Table" (WPBT) section of the UEFI firmware. Whenever Windows boots, it looks at the UEFI firmware for this program, copies it from the firmware to the operating system drive, and runs it. " " Lenovo shipped a variety of PCs with something called the "Lenovo Service Engine" (LSE) enabled. "
- numpad0 3y ago
  “Encrypted” means a set of data is processed with a password so to make it garbled, to both humans and computers. If data doesn’t involve a password of some shape or form to process, it isn’t “encrypted”, no matter how complicated of a state it might be in. “Obfuscated” is another word, that is used to describe a thing that, while requiring no password, intentionally made complicated to achieve similar effect. Hollywood style “the system is encrypted” is not real. That’s total technobabble, I’d say like “soft boiling a dinner plate”, nobody knows what it even amounts to.

> had a chip encrypted on the motherboard what does this mean?

dicknuckle 3y ago

It's typical techno-babble from fear-mongering media entities like Bloomberg and Daily Mail

consumer451 3y ago

I was also wondering what the heck that could possibly mean. I chalked it up to a journalist not being a true nerd.

rasz 3y ago

EC (embedded controller) in thinkpads is somewhat encrypted. EC among other things takes role of keyboard controller, and has access to big flash chip. Lenovo software does stuff behind your back all the time https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Security-Malware/BIOS-automatically-updated-without-warning-forced-reboot/m-p/3937410 https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Security-Malware/BIOS-automatic... UEFI BIOS can also initiate OS actions thru shitty MS mechanisms. You will love WPBT (Windows Platform Binary Table) https://www.howtogeek.com/226308/the-windows-platform-binary-table-why-crapware-can-come-back-after-a-clean-install/ https://www.howtogeek.com/226308/the-windows-platform-binary... "Beginning with Windows 8, a PC manufacturer can embed a program -- a Windows .exe file, essentially -- in the PC's UEFI firmware. This is stored in the "Windows Platform Binary Table" (WPBT) section of the UEFI firmware. Whenever Windows boots, it looks at the UEFI firmware for this program, copies it from the firmware to the operating system drive, and runs it. " " Lenovo shipped a variety of PCs with something called the "Lenovo Service Engine" (LSE) enabled. "

numpad0 3y ago
“Encrypted” means a set of data is processed with a password so to make it garbled, to both humans and computers. If data doesn’t involve a password of some shape or form to process, it isn’t “encrypted”, no matter how complicated of a state it might be in. “Obfuscated” is another word, that is used to describe a thing that, while requiring no password, intentionally made complicated to achieve similar effect. Hollywood style “the system is encrypted” is not real. That’s total technobabble, I’d say like “soft boiling a dinner plate”, nobody knows what it even amounts to.