*sigh*,
On 28.08.2018 22:00, Mike Banon wrote:
You are right, my choice of words has been far from ideal. I apologize for that. However, to be confident that Intel ME is a backdoor (personal opinion) - one does not have to be its' creator.
sorry I meant the creator of us (God) not the ME. I doubt the creator of the ME knows everybody's opinion either. Which is what I was talking about. A good practice is to quote and answer below that quote, this way you can easily check if what you write makes sense in the given context.
I think there are enough documents describing its' functionality and enough evidence gathered by the independent security researchers about the suspicious activities of this hardware module. If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck?
WTF again? what suspicious activities? I know, for many people the ME firmware contains unwanted features. But these features are documented. In your world, a device becomes backdoored because somebody didn't read the manual?!?
There are no technical differences between the 'backdoor', and 'frontdoor'.
Please read [1] and [2] very carefully, I hope even you will spot tech- nical differences.
Like a 'conspiracy theorist', 'frontdoor' is a term coming from the american 3-letter-agencies. 'Frontdoor' is their term for a 'backdoor' to which only they (currently) have an access. This article summarizes it well: https://www.justsecurity.org/16503/security-front-doors-vs-back-doors-distin... . 'Backdoor' term has a negative reputation, so they would like to push this 'frontdoor' term forward.
This is very infantile. You cannot just take somebody's words and give them a different meaning just because somebody else used them in a dif- ferent context. When I say frontdoor, I mean a door at a front where everyone can see it. A backdoor implies something hidden, the ME fea- tures were never hidden (AFAIK, a stupid OEM may prove me wrong, but I don't know any instance).
You did it again, btw., stating something (definition of frontdoor) and making it look like the generally accepted definition.
Nico
[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/back_door [2] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/front_door