Anon Intel employee leaks Intel's surveillance backdoor (kek.gg)
submitted 8.1 years ago by Wuttier
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o0shad0o 8.1 years ago
The management engine's potential for backdooring is well known. AMD has a similar setup.
djsumdog 8.1 years ago
There are people who have attempted to disable and remove ME. It's pretty difficult .. lots of things that, if you chance, will just brick the motherboard. There are a lot of signature and checksum checks.
http://hackaday.com/2016/11/28/neutralizing-intels-management-engine/
Here is the article I was thinking of:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-ME-Cleaning
Edit: github link to actual project:
https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner
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o0shad0o ago
The management engine's potential for backdooring is well known. AMD has a similar setup.
djsumdog ago
There are people who have attempted to disable and remove ME. It's pretty difficult .. lots of things that, if you chance, will just brick the motherboard. There are a lot of signature and checksum checks.
o0shad0o ago
http://hackaday.com/2016/11/28/neutralizing-intels-management-engine/
djsumdog ago
Here is the article I was thinking of:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-ME-Cleaning
Edit: github link to actual project:
https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner