Robert W. Gehl @rwg@aoir.social
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uspol, cybersecurity

Is anyone thinking through the cybersecurity implications of Trump insinuating himself into Intel's business? Many years ago people flagged Intel's Management Engine as a security threat:

eff.org/deeplinks/2017/05/inte

Concerns about this kind of faded, but if governments have a stake in chipmakers, that's a pretty easy path towards surveillance, yeah?

Intel's Management Engine is a security hazard, and users need a way to disable it

Intel’s CPUs have another Intel inside. Since 2008, most of Intel’s chipsets have contained a tiny homunculus computer called the “Management Engine” (ME). The ME is a largely undocumented master controller for your CPU: it works with system firmware during boot and has direct access to system...

www.eff.org · Electronic Frontier Foundation

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