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Re:Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA ... by d-161 on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @05:45PM (#37577252) 

  The Intel Management Engine always runs as long as the motherboard is 
  receiving power, even when the computer is turned off. This issue can be 
  mitigated with deployment of a hardware device, which is able to disconnect 
  mains power.

  Intel's main competitor AMD has incorporated the equivalent AMD Secure 
  Technology (formally called Platform Security Processor) in virtually all of 
  its post-2013 CPUs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine

  Ylian Saint-Hilaire, principal Engineer working on remote management software 
  including hardware manageability:
https://youtu.be/1seNMSamtxM?feature=shared

https://github.com/Ylianst

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Re:Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA ... by close04 on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @09:09AM (#37583659)
I think Ylian Saint-Hilaire hasn’t been with Intel for about a year now, after some layoffs. As a result the software ecosystem around AMT/vPro is lagging these days.

Hardware wise nothing changed, it’s just even harder for the actual owner of the hardware to use the legitimate management features while presumably easier for whoever could illegitimately abuse them.

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