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[–] • 7 pts

And they even tell the people

what is the Intel Managment Engine for ?

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000008927/software/chipset-software.html

And there is the equivalent AMD, obviously

[–] • 0 pt

The NSA/DOD/DHS worked with intel to create a extremely specific hardware configuration (a few actually) that if that configuration was detected it would automatically disable everything to do with IME.

[–] • 6 pts

Clipper was just a distraction until they could get hooks in all of the silicon.

Nothing is safe, it all has backdoors.

[–] • 6 pts

Hasnt this just been the usual for almost a few decades?

[–] • 3 pts

This has been a thing since the 90's. People JUST NOW realizing things like this are a few miles behind the curve.

[–] • 0 pt

Exactly. It's been the norm for decades, though I do think its use was truer to its stated purpose in the beginning.

[–] • 1 pt

Almost all innovations start out innocent or semi-innocent. Once the powers that be realize the potential for corruption and control, things start going downhill. All to soon, what was intended to be beneficial to the many is perverted to serve the whims/coveting of the few.

[–] • 5 pts

Also Windows OS

[–] • 5 pts

Remember when the NSA crypto keys built into the MS crypto backend was accidentally released in a windows 2000 update?

Well, some of us do..

[–] • 5 pts

ANY enterprise- grade computer is vulnerable regardless of the OS installed, and this includes Linux running on an encrypted disc. Why? Common Enterprise system management tools run pre-boot environments which communicate with every chip, including ram, via system management bus. This is typically how thermal data is collected from various sensors. But the SM bus is present and active even after boot. It's easy enough to craft utilities which monitor every bit of data in and out of the computer and the contents of RAM.

If you use one of these grade computers, as do I because they're typically more rugged than average consumer hardware, You would be best to disable these management features in the BIOS. And hope that setting is really honored.

[–] • 2 pts

a while ago there was something called heartbleed, which sounds somewhat similar to what the guy's describing. The backdoor thing I mean.

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