[coreboot] Re: how intel ME is connected to the internet ?

[Brian Milliron]

> That raises questions including the following:
> Does ME in fact extract network credentials from the main OS when
> latter is running?  (IIRC, Snowden indicated the answer is yes - at
> least in some cases.)

Technically it wouldn't need to since it controls the networking
hardware it could set up an ad-hoc wireless network to communicate with
other IntelME chips in the local area until it finds one with a wired
connection and route traffic through that.