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Re:Rediscovering the Intel AMT Vulnerability by fhood on Friday May 05, 2017 @01:27PM (#14275165)
To be fair, it is pretty rare (impossible) to find "secure" software that has zero avoidable vulnerabilities.
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Re:Rediscovering the Intel AMT Vulnerability by Karunamon on Friday May 05, 2017 @01:39PM (#14275266)
That's more of an argument about inauditable, non-disableable, hostile (the CPU shuts itself off if you blank out the appropriate data structures) code running below ring 0
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Re:Rediscovering the Intel AMT Vulnerability by throwaway2048 on Saturday May 06, 2017 @12:42AM (#14278708)
Don't forget in the majority of cases unupdatable too! (No vendor is going to issue fixes for old boards)
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