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Does this apply to Macs?
Not sure. ME requires coordination/support from other electronic components to do its job. It only applies to Macs if Apple's motherboards have the necessary circuitry (I couldn't find this info so far).
No doubt various three-letter agencies are having a field-day with this right now. Hopefully a robin-hood type will reverse-engineer the blob and post a permanent fix to disable this thing before a more nefarious person/group uses it to devastate the PC landscape with something even worse than bitlocker.
Nice breakdown of how ME works, but nothing new here. Still, I'm glad I hold on to a ton of older, pre Core i-series Intel machines, AMD machines, and ARM boards. If ME is ever truly compromised at least I have a fallback or three.
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Not sure. ME requires coordination/support from other electronic components to do its job. It only applies to Macs if Apple's motherboards have the necessary circuitry (I couldn't find this info so far).
The actual ME is in the chipset itself, though it is true that full AMT functionality may require additional hardware.
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The actual ME is in the chipset itself, though it is true that full AMT functionality may require additional hardware.
Do we know if Apple uses the whole, standard Intel chipset or just the cpu + custom, Intel supplied chipset?
No doubt various three-letter agencies are having a field-day with this right now. Hopefully a robin-hood type will reverse-engineer the blob and post a permanent fix to disable this thing before a more nefarious person/group uses it to devastate the PC landscape with something even worse than bitlocker.
Why create it in the first place? Are the enterprise uses the article mentions worth the risk?