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Re:The hijacking flaw that lurked in Intel chips is worse th... by lima on Sunday May 07, 2017 @06:55AM (#14284844)
> Intel ignoring it after being given years of notice

Sure about that? From what I can tell, it's a recently discovered vulnerability that was promptly fixed.

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Re:The hijacking flaw that lurked in Intel chips is worse th... by DKnoll on Sunday May 07, 2017 @07:03AM (#14284867)
According to SemiAccurate (terrible name for a source) they reported it to Intel some time ago.
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Re:The hijacking flaw that lurked in Intel chips is worse th... by lima on Sunday May 07, 2017 @10:12AM (#14285534)
As far as I know, Embedi and not SemiAccurate found and reported the issue.

https://www.embedi.com/files/white-papers/Silent-Bob-is-Sile...

> An authentication bypass vulnerability, which will be later known as CVE-2017-5689, was originally discovered in mid-February of 2017 while doing side-research on the internals of Intel ME firmware. The first objects of interest were network services and protocols.

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