Positive Technologies claims to access Intel's Management Engine

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Ignacio.Agullo
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Intel's super-secret Management Engine firmware now glimpsed, fingered via USB • The Register
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/09/chipzilla_come_closer_closer_listen_dump_ime/

ivanB1975
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It is why tools like this: https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner are very important. From the article it appears that the attacker needs a physical access to the machine (usb port), but still it is showing that the IME is a disaster. I am happily without it (used successfully the me_cleaner) and I am not missing it :)