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On 11/22/2017 11:16 PM, R0b0t1 wrote: |
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> Does anyone have more information on this? Has anything been |
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> published? I'm interested in exploiting my own computers so I can |
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> control the ME. |
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It seems that it is the same people who figured out HAP mode but they |
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haven't made a blog update I would ask on the coreboot mailinglist, |
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there are some very smart people there. |
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Although I doubt you will find any real information anywhere at all due |
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to the recent "white hat" tendency to restrict the real nuts and bolts |
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info and utilities to wealthy corporations instead of us peons who |
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*gasp* might do something "bad" with it/don't have lots of money to pay |
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for a "premier" support account. |
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I am curious as to why you wish to do this, considering you can buy a |
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libre firmware owner controlled motherboard with better functionality |
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(ex: OpenBMC) than any me/psp board for only $250 and $100 for a FX-8310 |
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equivalent cpu. |
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On 11/22/2017 11:18 PM, R0b0t1 wrote: |
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> On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 6:03 PM, Taiidan@×××.com <Taiidan@×××.com> wrote: |
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>> Using ME cleaner would also solve the issue and you wouldn't need any more |
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>> firmware updates when the next "bug" comes around. |
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> Intel ME has been found to remain active after being disabled, and |
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> some motherboards that do not ship as "vPro enabled" and consequently |
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> haven't had the licensing paid for certain features have been found |
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> with those same features enabled. I own an Asus laptop which is |
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> affected. Some Asus forum post reported that there's a Java-based SOAP |
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> webserver listening on the port associated with Intel ME. Intel ME is |
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> not visible to the BIOS, and so it can't be turned any more "off." |
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I understand the limitations of me_cleaner, although in this case it |
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would in fact solve the problems as all the currently *publicly* |
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discovered "bugs" are all ME feature exploits (and the features are |
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removed by me_cleaner) rather than exploits of the ME kernel although I |
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am certain that one is on the way. |
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Believe me I know what I am talking about, I regularly provide support |
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on the coreboot mailinglist and I own a variety of devices that are |
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owner controlled with libre firmware (and of course no ME/PSP). |
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