Intel Management Engine as backdoor?

[DontDontDropItLinus]

I stumbled upon this video about Intel Management Engine being a backdoor.

What are your thoughts?

https://youtu.be/Lr-9aCMUXzI

[Billy Pilgrim]

17 minutes ago, DontDontDropItLinus said:

I stumbled upon this video about Intel Management Engine being a backdoor.

What are your thoughts?

https://youtu.be/Lr-9aCMUXzI

What did you expect?

That Intel loves all of it's consumers and wishes the well and wants to protect their privacy?

[WereCatf]

17 minutes ago, DontDontDropItLinus said:

I stumbled upon this video about Intel Management Engine being a backdoor.

What are your thoughts?

https://youtu.be/Lr-9aCMUXzI

Can't be arsed to watch the video, but Intel ME is nothing new; you can find plenty of discussions about it online, if you just bother to Google.

 

Personally, I've disabled ME by modifying the BIOS on my server. Couldn't do it on the desktop yet, tho.

[Mira Yurizaki]

It's intent is to be used by network admins in corporate settings to remotely manage computers. I dunno, does that make it a backdoor?

[Arika]

literally as old as time.

 

everything can be a backdoor if you poke and prod at it hard enough. see spectre and meltdown