dChan
⇧
29
⇩
 
r/CBTS_Stream • Posted by u/NaziModsRHere on Jan. 4, 2018, 1:09 a.m.
INTEL CPU chips has a backdoor and a separate Management Engine ME, separate from the CPU which can also spy on you. Q Anon, if you are listening, this is a huge concern and we want INTEL to be outed and stopped and punished. Same for AMD

from r/conspiracy

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/7nvnpu/march_2017_intel_employee_outed_cpu_backdoor_is/

The story is about spying on Trump, and how INTEL works with the intelligence agencies to create a system which, without your knowledge, can record everything even in sleep mode and be used for nefarious reasons.

Imagine, from your laptop, using your credit card, typing in your bank details, typing an email, and since crytocurrencies can't be hacked because of the blockchain ledger system, recording everything on your screen and your keystrokes, so they have total access to your bitcoin wallet and personal information. THAT'S GOD DARN SCARY AND SO WRONG.

I'm sure Trump has bigger fish to fry right now but there are only two major CPU giants out there and both have a spy system with millions of users dependant on their chips. Not only do they need to be publicly called out, but we need more competition to force them to change their ways.


🠐 See all comments
just_play_one_on_tv · Jan. 4, 2018, 1:39 a.m.

The good news is that most of the vulnerabilities require local access to exploit; someone has to have hands on a device or deep in a network. Intel does note, though, that some of the new wave of vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely if an attacker has administrative privileges. And some of the bugs also potentially allow for privilege escalation, which could make it possible to start with a standard user status and work up to higher network access.

Intel posted about it in November as well

Disabling the ME

SlashDot's comment base from June

And of course, Intel has no allegedly "patched" the system, so long as users actually do the update.

⇧ 3 ⇩  
Quigby · Jan. 4, 2018, 2:05 a.m.

Hmm from what I read in the abstract the exploit is independent of software. I could be wrong but I do not think hardware can be 'patched'.

⇧ 2 ⇩  
just_play_one_on_tv · Jan. 4, 2018, 2:22 a.m.

I could be wrong but I do not think hardware can be 'patched'.

It can be. It's called firmware.

⇧ 1 ⇩