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1. Yes, I Know IT ! 🎓 (yesiknowit@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2017 05:02:47 EST Yes, I Know IT ! 🎓

   The blogosphere suddenly became aware of the existence of Intel ME "spying at you" to paraphrase some catchy titles. If some authors seem to discover that technology, the truth is it is here for almost 10 years!

   So, in order for you to make your own educated opinion, I tried to summarize the facts concerning Intel ME and the current state of the community knowledge about that technology.

   https://itsfoss.com/fact-intel-minix-case/

   #InfoSec #Privacy
   #Intel #IntelME #Minix
   #Mythbuster

   1. Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2017 20:51:48 EST Bob Jonkman

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      And people also forget about the processors embedded in every static storage device: SD cards, USB sticks, &c. From Bunnie Huang: "a full 32-bit ARM core is used as the controller between the FLASH device and the SD card interface" http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=898
      1. Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2017 20:55:31 EST Bob Jonkman

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         An even better quote from Bunnie Huang: "every flash memory disk ships with a reasonably powerful microcontroller to run a custom set of disk abstraction algorithms" http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3554 /cc @YesIKnowIT
      2. Not impartial (partial@sealion.club)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2017 21:01:35 EST Not impartial

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         @bobjonkman @yesiknowit "The MINIX 3 operating system has been successfully ported to ARM and is starting to be supported by some ARM development boards." Could this be the year of the MINIX thumbdrive?