On the same vein, do wo know if Intel Management Engine is a NSA backdoor?
I keep hearing about the potential of it beeing a back door, but haven't heard an exploit using it roaming about the interwebs
It's not known to be a backdoor, but it's a juicy attack surface that customers are largely ignorant of and provides little consumer benefit. If I were an NSA employee and my boss handed me a blank check to develop a preboot exploit for Intel PCs, I'd start with IME.
Is there an IME equivalent on AMD cpus?
The platform security processor, PSP. There were some mumblings of open sourcing the implementation details of it in 2017 or so, but that never happened, so it's still a black box that is potentially exploitable.
On the same vein, do wo know if Intel Management Engine is a NSA backdoor?
I keep hearing about the potential of it beeing a back door, but haven't heard an exploit using it roaming about the interwebs
It's not known to be a backdoor, but it's a juicy attack surface that customers are largely ignorant of and provides little consumer benefit. If I were an NSA employee and my boss handed me a blank check to develop a preboot exploit for Intel PCs, I'd start with IME.
Is there an IME equivalent on AMD cpus?
The platform security processor, PSP. There were some mumblings of open sourcing the implementation details of it in 2017 or so, but that never happened, so it's still a black box that is potentially exploitable.