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"Don't buy/use any new Intel/AMD hardware, it contains a backdoor." is there a clear source to this? Evidence? |
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Are you referring to the "bug" in Intel's AMT? |
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Not AMT, which is mostly in servers, but its base, Intel Management Engine - a separate processor with own closed-source digitally signed (there are some tools which strip its firmware to minimum, see MECleaner) minix-based firmware and full access to the system. Used in platform initialization, hw monitoring and who knows what else. There is a hidden functionality (discovered by a security firm Positive Technologies) to put this thing into endless loop after initialization presumably made to satisfy requests of US government orgs, but it doesn't fully disable it. |
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