I remember when TPM modules and BitLocker became standard, starting with laptops. I always suspected Microslop of adding a yet-to-be-discovered back door in their closed source shitshow.
Must be what a pepper feels like when the first nuke drops.
Must be what a pepper feels like when the first nuke drops.
It’s long been suspected that both Intels and AMDs flavors of system management engine have backdoors built into them and they run at ring -1 (supposedly at least the Intel one runs a flavor of Minix).
At least the AMD system management requires physical access (the AMD PSP does not have a network stack). Intel ME / AMT does have a network stack, and it hides its packets inside the host traffic. That’s the reason of the black holes on many Intel CPUs when listening on ports 16992-16995 (the host does not see incoming traffic to those ports because the AMT intercepts it).
Hmm, do you know what happens if you block those ports on your router so they can’t escape the network or get requests sent to them?
Surely the traffic is blocked? The firewall in your router can’t know if they came from your CPU OE something else
supposedly at least the Intel one runs a flavor of Minix
Nothing supposed about it, it’s the core of the Intel Management Engine
