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Re:Saudi Arabia tracks runaway women by cellphone IMEI by amluto on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @02:46PM (#20167946)
So can SGX (under certain circumstances). So can your hard disk, your NIC, and probably your firmware via DMI.
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Re:Saudi Arabia tracks runaway women by cellphone IMEI by moftz on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @04:10PM (#20168772)
Right, but those components typically don't have unchecked access to the rest of the system via back doors.
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Re:Saudi Arabia tracks runaway women by cellphone IMEI by amluto on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @07:01PM (#20170237)
Your NIC is at least as dangerous as ME if you don’t have the ME connected to the network.
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