• ReginaPhalange@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    On the same vein, do wo know if Intel Management Engine is a NSA backdoor?
    I keep hearing about the potential of it beeing a back door, but haven’t heard an exploit using it roaming about the interwebs

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      10 months ago

      It’s not known to be a backdoor, but it’s a juicy attack surface that customers are largely ignorant of and provides little consumer benefit. If I were an NSA employee and my boss handed me a blank check to develop a preboot exploit for Intel PCs, I’d start with IME.

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          10 months ago

          The platform security processor, PSP. There were some mumblings of open sourcing the implementation details of it in 2017 or so, but that never happened, so it’s still a black box that is potentially exploitable.