Intel X86s Hide Another CPU That Can Take Over Your Machine

[jbltecnicspro]

sarcasm after Snowden? really? ok.

Yah rly.

EDIT: Fine, I'll bite. You're new here so I'll spare you. I was only playing around. And yeah, I take this shit pretty seriously. The "tin foil hat" joke was just a funny, since people would probably label me that. And a good day to you, sir.

 

[WangChung]

I always thought from a corporate IT standpoint the Intel ME was pretty cool. From the days of being a field tech, remote BIOS config/upgrade and turning machines on remotely to run updates is a lot easier than trying to hunt down a machine. Especially in an office where people tend not to put in move requests so I know where to find the damn thing.

If I remember correctly though, the MEI goes hand in hand with a Trusted Platform Module, as sort of a hardware based two-factor authentication. Is that correct? That plus the RSA2048 intranet connection would make "hacking" this obscenely impossible, unless Intel gave their specs over to a State-sponsored actor AND they also had the TPM encryption key.