[coreboot] Intel ME Question

Timothy Pearson tpearson at raptorengineering.com
Fri Dec 23 21:36:34 CET 2016


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On 12/23/2016 02:13 PM, bancfc at openmailbox.org wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Seeing that many of you know a lot about Intel's ME I wanted to ask a
> couple of things if its ok.
> 
> * Is the ME network accessible on all Intel chips or only the vPro ones
> with AMT?
> 
> * I saw an interesting take on this in the link below, instead of the
> usual FUD surrounding this topic whenever its mentioned. What is your
> take on what he says?
> 
> https://www.reddit.com/r/onions/comments/5i6qa3/can_the_nsafbi_use_intel_me_to_defeat_tor_on_95/

Honestly I'd be far more concerned about the claim that the signing keys
are not only known, but actively traded among criminals.  That means
that we are no longer just looking at state-level attacks on ME-enabled
systems, and we have a much larger problem than first assumed by the
majority of the security community.

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Timothy Pearson
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