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tldr: Intel's remote management capabilities are obscurely baked into every chipset. The ME has out of band access to the network card and main memory. Since
by WhitneyLand 12y ago
tldr: Intel's remote management capabilities are obscurely baked into every chipset. The ME has out of band access to the network card and main memory. Since ME also has its own flashable memory in principle a machine could be compromised in a nearly undetectable way. The presentation shows that a lot of interesting details of ME have been brought to light but it has also withstood a first round of attacks. No rootkit has yet been shown to be practical.
- logicallee 12y agowhat an unlikely coincidence. amazing what nature can come up with without any sort of plan or guidance. :)
- bhouston 12y agoIt just has to be a matter of time until it is cracked. I am surprised Intel did this.
- razster 12y agoMy guess is that this was requested and passed by without fully understanding the consequences.
- cfrantz2 12y agoI believe it has already been cracked. See "Persistent, Stealthy, Remote-controlled Dedicated Hardware Malware" from 30c3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck8bIjAUJgE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck8bIjAUJgE
- venomsnake 12y agoLets just hope that intel security teams are better than Sony Pictures' ones. After the sony hack ... lets say that I feel less secure about anything.
- pekk 12y agoWhat was exceptional about the Sony hack? Lots of companies have been owned due to various oversights.
- venomsnake 12y agoThe scope. They almost reached to "be able to destroy the company" scale.