Subj : Re: Minix To : Nightfox From : Digital Man Date : Thu Apr 18 2024 13:20:40 Re: Re: Minix By: Nightfox to tenser on Thu Apr 18 2024 09:51 am > Re: Re: Minix > By: tenser to Skylar on Fri Apr 19 2024 12:30 am > > te> The joke was that there have been several very high-profile bugs in the > te> ME; not due to Minix per se, but rather due to code that Intel wrote. > > I worked at Intel for a little over 8 years. I was in a team working on > security software, and one component of the first project I worked on with > them used the Intel ME. It was interesting to learn about that stuff.. > Later, the team worked on some software using Intel's SGX (Software Guard > Extensions), which I heard also had some security flaws and was later > discontinued. I worked at Broadcom for 16 years and a large part of that time was in charge of the TruManage (Deuce is actually the one that came up with that name) project that competed with Intel AMT/vPro for embedded system management solutions (i.e. ASF, DASH, SMASH, IPMI/DCMI, etc.) for client systems and low-end servers. Intel was our biggest competitor and they were able to use system main memory and hide their die-cost in the rest of the chipset, so we were at a disadvantage on Intel platforms, but had virtually all the AMD platform marketshare for a long time. Intel also played dirty in the standards body (DMTF), using their position of power over their customers to win votes and vote-down enhancements to management standards they had abandoned. The Broadcom system management controller (AKA "BMC") was integrated into our network controllers (BCM57xxx) and was a very fun embedded supervisory system with a lot of power and control over the entire system. -- digital man (rob) This Is Spinal Tap quote #18: Sustain, listen to it. Don't hear anything. You would though were it playing. Norco, CA WX: 75.1øF, 31.0% humidity, 1 mph SSW wind, 0.00 inches rain/24hrs --- SBBSecho 3.20-Linux * Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (21:1/183) .