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Re:Intel Reveals Post-8th Gen. Core Architecture 10nm+ Ice Lake by Buge on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @11:47AM (#15028415)
Malware is in fact using IME.[1] And remotely exploitable vulnerabilities have been found it in.[2]

[1] https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/mmpc/2017/06/07/platinum...

[2] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/05/intel...

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Re:Intel Reveals Post-8th Gen. Core Architecture 10nm+ Ice Lake by davemp on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @12:05PM (#15028601)
I'm surprised I didn't hear about this until now. It looks like the user had to have enabled AMT, so this isn't exactly conspiracy levels.

It is troubling how little priority the computer world gives to proper security models.

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