Intel Management Engine is practically bridged

[cobito]

For quite some time, attempts have been made to disable this technology present in Intel processors since 2006 (Core 2 onwards). Through reverse engineering, the system is just 100kb of binaries away from being neutralized.

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[Yorus]

Being a paranoid about personal privacy is a lot of work these days, it's a never-ending task because there are so many devices through which we can have a small hole and taking the free path requires a lot of research and time.

[palotes]

The issue of defending privacy today seems to me equivalent to defending democracy and freedom in the 16th century amidst the absolutist monarchies of all of Europe. If you traveled in a time machine to that era and started preaching about rights, freedoms, and democracy, people would look at you like you were crazy. They would think, how are people going to choose the king? If the king is chosen by God!

When I hear people say that they have nothing to hide, it seems to me like an act of faith like back then with the kings and their divine election. Assuming that because you have nothing to hide you don't need to preserve your privacy and that you should also entrust it to governments and companies seems to me like a similar act of faith.

[whoololon]

The important thing is to know that this (security holes) exists.
And I personally don't care what gets leaked from a bastard through my machine: whoololon doesn't exist.
Damn, it seems unbelievable that we don't know how to take advantage of the anonymity (yes, I said anonymity) that the internet provides us.
If there are people who don't know, or who are so naive as to publish their life and miracles on portals and social networks, that their mailbox gets filled with propaganda should be the least of their concerns.
I don't change my clothes in the middle of the street, with the same I avoid putting "real" personal data in records of who knows what page or service; and when I have to, there are methods to minimize possible leaks.
If they really look for me, justice has more than enough means to know in whose name the IP is used at such and such an hour.

I'm much more concerned about other more flagrant things that are seen on TV every day, while I barely make it to the end of the month... and that's as far as I can read.

[QVENGADOR]

At my job they keep giving me courses on data protection. Ha ha ha... I can't stop laughing...