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Your Intel CPU is backdoored and it is wide open, right now.

The backdoor is on all modern intel CPU/Chipset and is marketed as vPro/AMT/Small Business Advantage/Anti-Theft Technology, it is in all Core i3/i5/i7/Xeon CPU/Chipset in the past 6 years.

*3 Billion devices run JAVA* because everyone's Intel backdoor is running it.

REcon 2014 - Intel Management Engine Secrets

CCC Intel CPU backdoor live hack demonstration, keystrokes logged and sent over wire, wireshark can't detect packet because the Intel backdoor runs above the OS:
Towards (reasonably) trustworthy x86 laptops
Untrusting the CPU (33c3)
30C3 To Protect And Infect - The militarization of the Internet
Jacob Appelbaum - To Protect and Infect Part 2 - At 30c3 on Mass Surveillance Tools & Software

More links in this discussion:
The Intel ME subsystem can take over your machine, can't be audited

Tools to remove Intel backdoor firmware (You need to physically clip onto a 8pins chip on motherboards to download/neutralize/flash the rom, nothing else can touch it), the backdoor is designed to shutdown your machine within 30 minutes after boot, if you just remove the backdoor and don't handle checksums correctly:
https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner.

Neutralize your Intel backdoor:

Neutralize ME firmware on SandyBridge and IvyBridge platforms

First introduced in Intelâ(TM)s 965 Express Chipset Family, the Intel Management Engine (ME) is a separate computing environment physically located in the (G)MCH chip (for Core 2 family CPUs which is separate from the northbridge), or PCH chip replacing ICH(for Core i3/i5/i7 which is integrated with northbridge).

The ME consists of an individual processor core, code and data caches, a timer, and a secure internal bus to which additional devices are connected, including a cryptography engine, internal ROM and RAM, memory controllers, and a direct memory access (DMA) engine to access the host operating systemâ(TM)s memory as well as to reserve a region of protected external memory to supplement the MEâ(TM)s limited internal RAM. The ME also has network access with its own MAC address through the Intel Gigabit Ethernet Controller integrated in the southbridge (ICH or PCH).

The Intel Management Engine with its proprietary firmware has complete access to and control over the PC: it can power on or shut down the PC, read all open files, examine all running applications, track all keys pressed and mouse movements, and even capture or display images on the screen. And it has a network interface that is demonstrably insecure, which can allow an attacker on the network to inject rootkits that completely compromise the PC and can report to the attacker all activities performed on the PC. It is a threat to freedom, security, and privacy that canâ(TM)t be ignored.

https://hackaday.com/tag/intel-management-engine/

Five or so years ago, Intel rolled out something horrible. Intelâ(TM)s Management Engine (ME) is a completely separate computing environment running on Intel chipsets that has access to everything. The ME has network access, access to the host operating system, memory, and cryptography engine. The ME can be used remotely even if the PC is powered off. If that sounds scary, it gets even worse: no one knows what the ME is doing, and we canâ

Your Intel CPU is backdoored and it is wide open, right now.

The backdoor is on all modern intel CPU/Chipset and is marketed as vPro/AMT/Small Business Advantage/Anti-Theft Technology, it is in all Core i3/i5/i7/Xeon CPU/Chipset in the past 6 years.

*3 Billion devices run JAVA* because everyone's Intel backdoor is running it.

REcon 2014 - Intel Management Engine Secrets

CCC Intel CPU backdoor live hack demonstration, keystrokes logged and sent over wire, wireshark can't detect packet because the Intel backdoor runs above the OS:
Towards (reasonably) trustworthy x86 laptops
Untrusting the CPU (33c3)
30C3 To Protect And Infect - The militarization of the Internet
Jacob Appelbaum - To Protect and Infect Part 2 - At 30c3 on Mass Surveillance Tools & Software

More links in this discussion:
The Intel ME subsystem can take over your machine, can't be audited

Tools to remove Intel backdoor firmware (You need to physically clip onto a 8pins chip on motherboards to download/neutralize/flash the rom, nothing else can touch it), the backdoor is designed to shutdown your machine within 30 minutes after boot, if you just remove the backdoor and don't handle checksums correctly:
https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner.

Neutralize your Intel backdoor:

Neutralize ME firmware on SandyBridge and IvyBridge platforms

First introduced in Intelâ(TM)s 965 Express Chipset Family, the Intel Management Engine (ME) is a separate computing environment physically located in the (G)MCH chip (for Core 2 family CPUs which is separate from the northbridge), or PCH chip replacing ICH(for Core i3/i5/i7 which is integrated with northbridge).

The ME consists of an individual processor core, code and data caches, a timer, and a secure internal bus to which additional devices are connected, including a cryptography engine, internal ROM and RAM, memory controllers, and a direct memory access (DMA) engine to access the host operating systemâ(TM)s memory as well as to reserve a region of protected external memory to supplement the MEâ(TM)s limited internal RAM. The ME also has network access with its own MAC address through the Intel Gigabit Ethernet Controller integrated in the southbridge (ICH or PCH).

The Intel Management Engine with its proprietary firmware has complete access to and control over the PC: it can power on or shut down the PC, read all open files, examine all running applications, track all keys pressed and mouse movements, and even capture or display images on the screen. And it has a network interface that is demonstrably insecure, which can allow an attacker on the network to inject rootkits that completely compromise the PC and can report to the attacker all activities performed on the PC. It is a threat to freedom, security, and privacy that canâ(TM)t be ignored.

https://hackaday.com/tag/intel-management-engine/

Five or so years ago, Intel rolled out something horrible. Intelâ(TM)s Management Engine (ME) is a completely separate computing environment running on Intel chipsets that has access to everything. The ME has network access, access to the host operating system, memory, and cryptography engine. The ME can be used remotely even if the PC is powered off. If that sounds scary, it gets even worse: no one knows what the ME is doing, and we canâ

Your Intel CPU is backdoored and it is wide open, right now.

The backdoor is on all modern intel CPU/Chipset and is marketed as vPro/AMT/Small Business Advantage/Anti-Theft Technology, it is in all Core i3/i5/i7/Xeon CPU/Chipset in the past 6 years.

*3 Billion devices run JAVA* because everyone's Intel backdoor is running it.

REcon 2014 - Intel Management Engine Secrets

CCC Intel CPU backdoor live hack demonstration, keystrokes logged and sent over wire, wireshark can't detect packet because the Intel backdoor runs above the OS:
Towards (reasonably) trustworthy x86 laptops
Untrusting the CPU (33c3)
30C3 To Protect And Infect - The militarization of the Internet
Jacob Appelbaum - To Protect and Infect Part 2 - At 30c3 on Mass Surveillance Tools & Software

More links in this discussion:
The Intel ME subsystem can take over your machine, can't be audited

Tools to remove Intel backdoor firmware (You need to physically clip onto a 8pins chip on motherboards to download/neutralize/flash the rom, nothing else can touch it), the backdoor is designed to shutdown your machine within 30 minutes after boot, if you just remove the backdoor and don't handle checksums correctly:
https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner.

Neutralize your Intel backdoor:

Neutralize ME firmware on SandyBridge and IvyBridge platforms

First introduced in Intelâ(TM)s 965 Express Chipset Family, the Intel Management Engine (ME) is a separate computing environment physically located in the (G)MCH chip (for Core 2 family CPUs which is separate from the northbridge), or PCH chip replacing ICH(for Core i3/i5/i7 which is integrated with northbridge).

The ME consists of an individual processor core, code and data caches, a timer, and a secure internal bus to which additional devices are connected, including a cryptography engine, internal ROM and RAM, memory controllers, and a direct memory access (DMA) engine to access the host operating systemâ(TM)s memory as well as to reserve a region of protected external memory to supplement the MEâ(TM)s limited internal RAM. The ME also has network access with its own MAC address through the Intel Gigabit Ethernet Controller integrated in the southbridge (ICH or PCH).

The Intel Management Engine with its proprietary firmware has complete access to and control over the PC: it can power on or shut down the PC, read all open files, examine all running applications, track all keys pressed and mouse movements, and even capture or display images on the screen. And it has a network interface that is demonstrably insecure, which can allow an attacker on the network to inject rootkits that completely compromise the PC and can report to the attacker all activities performed on the PC. It is a threat to freedom, security, and privacy that canâ(TM)t be ignored.

https://hackaday.com/tag/intel-management-engine/

Five or so years ago, Intel rolled out something horrible. Intelâ(TM)s Management Engine (ME) is a completely separate computing environment running on Intel chipsets that has access to everything. The ME has network access, access to the host operating system, memory, and cryptography engine. The ME can be used remotely even if the PC is powered off. If that sounds scary, it gets even worse: no one knows what the ME is doing, and we canâ

Your Intel CPU is backdoored and it is wide open, right now.

The backdoor is on all modern intel CPU/Chipset and is marketed as vPro/AMT/Small Business Advantage/Anti-Theft Technology, it is in all Core i3/i5/i7/Xeon CPU/Chipset in the past 6 years.

*3 Billion devices run JAVA* because everyone's Intel backdoor is running it.

REcon 2014 - Intel Management Engine Secrets

CCC Intel CPU backdoor live hack demonstration, keystrokes logged and sent over wire, wireshark can't detect packet because the Intel backdoor runs above the OS:
Towards (reasonably) trustworthy x86 laptops
Untrusting the CPU (33c3)
30C3 To Protect And Infect - The militarization of the Internet
Jacob Appelbaum - To Protect and Infect Part 2 - At 30c3 on Mass Surveillance Tools & Software

More links in this discussion:
The Intel ME subsystem can take over your machine, can't be audited

Tools to remove Intel backdoor firmware (You need to physically clip onto a 8pins chip on motherboards to download/neutralize/flash the rom, nothing else can touch it), the backdoor is designed to shutdown your machine within 30 minutes after boot, if you just remove the backdoor and don't handle checksums correctly:
https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner.

Neutralize your Intel backdoor:

Neutralize ME firmware on SandyBridge and IvyBridge platforms

First introduced in Intelâ(TM)s 965 Express Chipset Family, the Intel Management Engine (ME) is a separate computing environment physically located in the (G)MCH chip (for Core 2 family CPUs which is separate from the northbridge), or PCH chip replacing ICH(for Core i3/i5/i7 which is integrated with northbridge).

The ME consists of an individual processor core, code and data caches, a timer, and a secure internal bus to which additional devices are connected, including a cryptography engine, internal ROM and RAM, memory controllers, and a direct memory access (DMA) engine to access the host operating systemâ(TM)s memory as well as to reserve a region of protected external memory to supplement the MEâ(TM)s limited internal RAM. The ME also has network access with its own MAC address through the Intel Gigabit Ethernet Controller integrated in the southbridge (ICH or PCH).

The Intel Management Engine with its proprietary firmware has complete access to and control over the PC: it can power on or shut down the PC, read all open files, examine all running applications, track all keys pressed and mouse movements, and even capture or display images on the screen. And it has a network interface that is demonstrably insecure, which can allow an attacker on the network to inject rootkits that completely compromise the PC and can report to the attacker all activities performed on the PC. It is a threat to freedom, security, and privacy that canâ(TM)t be ignored.

https://hackaday.com/tag/intel-management-engine/

Five or so years ago, Intel rolled out something horrible. Intelâ(TM)s Management Engine (ME) is a completely separate computing environment running on Intel chipsets that has access to everything. The ME has network access, access to the host operating system, memory, and cryptography engine. The ME can be used remotely even if the PC is powered off. If that sounds scary, it gets even worse: no one knows what the ME is doing, and we canâ

Oil is all natural and moreover oil is 100% organic. It is part of nature, occurring naturally. It has been seeping from the earth for thousands of years without harm.

Humans are pretty arrogant to think that they are better than Nature. Oil is degraded naturally in the environment by wind, water, ultraviolet light, and microorganisms.

So what's behind this new get rich quick scheme? As our European forefathers asked "cui bono?"

Who benefits? Simple. The shysters and fraudsters who try to wrangle contracts and lucrative government and investor money for their hare brained scheme. Do you know the Sham Wow Guy ? Or the vegomatic? Or any of those other scam artists peddling their cheap made in China doodads? Well these "scientists" have those pikers beat by a country mile.

These crooked "scientists" make fabulous salaries while shamelessly scamming the general public. Take that fake scientist Bill Nye. He is at the top of the heap of slight of hand artists. How much do you think he's worth? How much has this master snake oil salesman profited from his outlandish claims? How much is he worth? Try Six and a Half Million Dollars! That's $6,500,000.

Now consider the poor earthy-crunchy greenie schlub. He has a degree in sociology. He's pushing 30 years old. He meticulously recycles plastic/paper/glass/food scraps. His vegan diet consists of quinoa and rice. He shuffles around in Birkenstocks, works at the Rite Aid for a little over minimum wage, 31.5 hours per week, less that 20K per year. It's not enough hours even to qualify for company insurance.

Our poor schlub has a sunken chest and a pale pasty complexion. This chump lives this spartan third-world lifestyle so that he can "help the earth", sending every spare shekel to foundations controlled by the likes of Bill Nye, people who cruise around in tricked out Cadillac Escalades, while quinoa Birkenstock boy humps to work on his two wheel thrift shop "cruiser",

Cui bono? Who benefits? Why the fraudsters behind this "Magic Oil Sponge", the crooks and "scientists" pocketing a fortune in graft while putting the the Sham Wow Guy magic sponge to shame. Mr. Sham Wow couldn't even dare to dream of a con this large and lucrative.

Oil is all natural and moreover oil is 100% organic. It is part of nature, occurring naturally. It has been seeping from the earth for thousands of years without harm.

Humans are pretty arrogant to think that they are better than Nature. Oil is degraded naturally in the environment by wind, water, ultraviolet light, and microorganisms.

So what's behind this new get rich quick scheme? As our European forefathers asked "cui bono?"

Who benefits? Simple. The shysters and fraudsters who try to wrangle contracts and lucrative government and investor money for their hare brained scheme. Do you know the Sham Wow Guy ? Or the vegomatic? Or any of those other scam artists peddling their cheap made in China doodads? Well these "scientists" have those pikers beat by a country mile.

These crooked "scientists" make fabulous salaries while shamelessly scamming the general public. Take that fake scientist Bill Nye. He is at the top of the heap of slight of hand artists. How much do you think he's worth? How much has this master snake oil salesman profited from his outlandish claims? How much is he worth? Try Six and a Half Million Dollars! That's $6,500,000.

Now consider the poor earthy-crunchy greenie schlub. He has a degree in sociology. He's pushing 30 years old. He meticulously recycles plastic/paper/glass/food scraps. His vegan diet consists of quinoa and rice. He shuffles around in Birkenstocks, works at the Rite Aid for a little over minimum wage, 31.5 hours per week, less that 20K per year. It's not enough hours even to qualify for company insurance.

Our poor schlub has a sunken chest and a pale pasty complexion. This chump lives this spartan third-world lifestyle so that he can "help the earth", sending every spare shekel to foundations controlled by the likes of Bill Nye, people who cruise around in tricked out Cadillac Escalades, while quinoa Birkenstock boy humps to work on his two wheel thrift shop "cruiser",

Cui bono? Who benefits? Why the fraudsters behind this "Magic Oil Sponge", the crooks and "scientists" pocketing a fortune in graft while putting the the Sham Wow Guy magic sponge to shame. Mr. Sham Wow couldn't even dare to dream of a con this large and lucrative.

I generally agree with you regarding country, but a friend of mine turned me onto Eric Church.

Here's Kill a Word live at Red Rocks by Eric Church (lyrics as well). Great venue, great song, the woman is a little over the top at times (in my opinion).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Lyrics:
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics...

Yeah, he sings about drinking as well, but he has song good songs, Springsteen is another I like.

Oil is all natural. Oil is organic. It is part of nature, occurring naturally. It has been seeping from the earth for thousands of years without harm.

Humans are pretty arrogant to think that they are better than Nature. Oil is degraded naturally in the environment by wind, water, ultraviolet light, and microorganisms.

So what is behind this new get rich quick scheme? As our European forefathers asked "cui bono?"

Who benefits? Simple. The shysters and fraudsters who try to wrangle contracts and lucrative government and investor money for their hare brained scheme. Do you know the Sham Wow Guy ? Or the vegomatic? Or any of those other scam artists peddling their cheap made in China doodads? Well these "scientists" have those pikers beat by a country mile.

These crooked "scientists" make fabulous salarys while shamelessly scamming the general public. Take that fake scientist Bill Nye. He is at the top of the heap of slight of hand artists. How much do you think he's worth? How much has this master snake oil salesman profited from his outlandish claims? How much is he worth? Try Six and a Half Million Dollars! That's $6,500,000.

Now consider the poor earthy-crunchy greenie shlub. He has a degree in sociology. He's pushing 30 years old. He meticulously recycles plastic/paper/glass/food scraps. His vegan diet consists of quinoa and rice. He shuffles around in Birkenstocks, works at the Rite Aid for a little over minimum wage, 31.5 hours per week, less that 20K per year. It's not enough hours even to qualify for company insurance.

Our poor schlub has a sunken chest and a pale pasty complexion. This chump lives this spartan third-world lifestyle so that he can "help the earth", sending every spare shekel to foundations controlled by the likes of Bill Nye, people who cruise around in tricked out Cadillac Escalades, while quinoa Birkenstock boy humps to work on his two wheel thrift shop "cruiser",

Cui bono? Who benefits? Why the fraudsters behind this "Magic Oil Sponge", the crooks and "scientists" pocketing a fortune in graft while putting the the Sham Wow Guy magic sponge to shame. Mr. Sham Wow couldn't even dare to dream of a con this large and lucrative.

Oil is all natural. Oil is organic. It is part of nature, occurring naturally. It has been seeping from the earth for thousands of years without harm.

Humans are pretty arrogant to think that they are better than Nature. Oil is degraded naturally in the environment by wind, water, ultraviolet light, and microorganisms.

So what is behind this new get rich quick scheme? As our European forefathers asked "cui bono?"

Who benefits? Simple. The shysters and fraudsters who try to wrangle contracts and lucrative government and investor money for their hare brained scheme. Do you know the Sham Wow Guy ? Or the vegomatic? Or any of those other scam artists peddling their cheap made in China doodads? Well these "scientists" have those pikers beat by a country mile.

These crooked "scientists" make fabulous salarys while shamelessly scamming the general public. Take that fake scientist Bill Nye. He is at the top of the heap of slight of hand artists. How much do you think he's worth? How much has this master snake oil salesman profited from his outlandish claims? How much is he worth? Try Six and a Half Million Dollars! That's $6,500,000.

Now consider the poor earthy-crunchy greenie shlub. He has a degree in sociology. He's pushing 30 years old. He meticulously recycles plastic/paper/glass/food scraps. His vegan diet consists of quinoa and rice. He shuffles around in Birkenstocks, works at the Rite Aid for a little over minimum wage, 31.5 hours per week, less that 20K per year. It's not enough hours even to qualify for company insurance.

Our poor schlub has a sunken chest and a pale pasty complexion. This chump lives this spartan third-world lifestyle so that he can "help the earth", sending every spare shekel to foundations controlled by the likes of Bill Nye, people who cruise around in tricked out Cadillac Escalades, while quinoa Birkenstock boy humps to work on his two wheel thrift shop "cruiser",

Cui bono? Who benefits? Why the fraudsters behind this "Magic Oil Sponge", the crooks and "scientists" pocketing a fortune in graft while putting the the Sham Wow Guy magic sponge to shame. Mr. Sham Wow couldn't even dare to dream of a con this large and lucrative.

>> Do they think they're the only ones who found these exploits?

I'm reminded of this interview with Gary Mckinnon (Scottish hacker of US government systems).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The way he got into multiple US government systems was with a simple script that just tried logging into the windows adminstrator account with an empty password. Guess what, it worked MANY times.

at around 3:00 he said that while he was logged into these supposedly secure Pentagon, NASA and other US government systems, netstat ususally showed that there was a "permanent tennancy of other hackers" from around the world from IP addresses originating in Turkey, Germany, Holland, etc.

the girl herslef said they are false, the accusations were made by a third-side feminist who thought she knew better than both of them

Just so folks can see a concrete, verifiable example of this kind of thing . . .

Two adult students have consensual sex; third parties decide otherwise, including the university. The male student is suspended before they even do him the courtesy of a show trial, ruining his education, athletic career, and (potential) medical career.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

This is how the "rape culture" myth does irreparable harm, with college students getting the worst of it through abuse of Title IX.

I I watched that whole tucker/hines debacle. you're right, about halfway through Hines gives a very lackluster defense of his committee's oversight, 'we get regular reports of overreaches' or something to that effect. I wish Tucker had pressed him more on how he could improve that oversight.

and I understand this, but any mature adult knows one thing about aging -- you cannot go back, no matter how one might try. Being almost 50 myself, I grew up in the arcades of the late 70s and early 80s and have fond memories of the very first games. I still enjoy playing games like Defender and Galaga, but now play them on a laptop. Yes, yes, the feeling is gone. There are no teenage girls cheering you on, no smoking, drinking gallons of soda, you name it...

You can still drink a 2-liter bottle of Shasta and play your all-Rush mix tape...

I had not known these existed. I picked one to make local copies as a token gesture using keepvid.com:
"Peace and Conflict Studies 164A - Fall 2006 (Michael N. Nagler)"
https://www.youtube.com/view_p...
"PACS 164A: Introduction to Nonviolence - Fall 2006. An introduction to the science of nonviolence, mainly as seen through the life and work of Mahatma Gandhi. Historical overview of nonviolence East and the West up to the American Civil Rights movement and Martin Luther King, Jr., with emphasis on the ideal of principled nonviolence and the reality of mixed or strategic nonviolence in practice, especially as applied to problems of social justice and defense."

For some reason lecture #16 is marked private, so can't get that.

Dr. Nagler talks in the first lecture about Kenneth E. Boulding and "The Three Faces of Power" as ways to get something done:
* threat power
* exchange power
* integrative power (the core of principled nonviolence as he sees it)

See here (until March 14th): https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Those three faces of power also overlap with the five types of economic transactions (subsistence, gift, exchange, planned, and theft) I outline on my site.

It's unfortunate that the plaintiffs and DOJ here seemed to used "threat power" instead of focusing on building better relationships for mutual benefit through "integrative power" to both fix the specific problem and have a beneficial effect on the whole educational ecosystem.

See also my point here as regards UCB now putting stuff behind what presumably may be a paywall again requiring registration:
http://www.pdfernhout.net/open...
"Foundations, other grantmaking agencies handling public tax-exempt dollars, and charitable donors need to consider the implications for their grantmaking or donation policies if they use a now obsolete charitable model of subsidizing proprietary publishing and proprietary research. In order to improve the effectiveness and collaborativeness of the non-profit sector overall, it is suggested these grantmaking organizations and donors move to requiring grantees to make any resulting copyrighted digital materials freely available on the internet, including free licenses granting the right for others to make and redistribute new derivative works without further permission. It is also suggested patents resulting from charitably subsidized research research also be made freely available for general use. The alternative of allowing charitable dollars to result in proprietary copyrights and proprietary patents is corrupting the non-profit sector as it results in a conflict of interest between a non-profit's primary mission of helping humanity through freely sharing knowledge (made possible at little cost by the internet) and a desire to maximize short term revenues through charging licensing fees for access to patents and copyrights. In essence, with the change of publishing and communication economics made possible by the wide spread use of the internet, tax-exempt non-profits have become, perhaps unwittingly, caught up in a new form of "self-dealing", and it is up to donors and grantmakers (and eventually lawmakers) to prevent this by requiring free licensing of results as a condition of their grants and donations."

Glad to see more substantial efforts going on as mentioned in another comment.

I had not known these existed. I picked one to make local copies as a token gesture using keepvid.com:
"Peace and Conflict Studies 164A - Fall 2006 (Michael N. Nagler)"
https://www.youtube.com/view_p...
"PACS 164A: Introduction to Nonviolence - Fall 2006. An introduction to the science of nonviolence, mainly as seen through the life and work of Mahatma Gandhi. Historical overview of nonviolence East and the West up to the American Civil Rights movement and Martin Luther King, Jr., with emphasis on the ideal of principled nonviolence and the reality of mixed or strategic nonviolence in practice, especially as applied to problems of social justice and defense."

For some reason lecture #16 is marked private, so can't get that.

Dr. Nagler talks in the first lecture about Kenneth E. Boulding and "The Three Faces of Power" as ways to get something done:
* threat power
* exchange power
* integrative power (the core of principled nonviolence as he sees it)

See here (until March 14th): https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Those three faces of power also overlap with the five types of economic transactions (subsistence, gift, exchange, planned, and theft) I outline on my site.

It's unfortunate that the plaintiffs and DOJ here seemed to used "threat power" instead of focusing on building better relationships for mutual benefit through "integrative power" to both fix the specific problem and have a beneficial effect on the whole educational ecosystem.

See also my point here as regards UCB now putting stuff behind what presumably may be a paywall again requiring registration:
http://www.pdfernhout.net/open...
"Foundations, other grantmaking agencies handling public tax-exempt dollars, and charitable donors need to consider the implications for their grantmaking or donation policies if they use a now obsolete charitable model of subsidizing proprietary publishing and proprietary research. In order to improve the effectiveness and collaborativeness of the non-profit sector overall, it is suggested these grantmaking organizations and donors move to requiring grantees to make any resulting copyrighted digital materials freely available on the internet, including free licenses granting the right for others to make and redistribute new derivative works without further permission. It is also suggested patents resulting from charitably subsidized research research also be made freely available for general use. The alternative of allowing charitable dollars to result in proprietary copyrights and proprietary patents is corrupting the non-profit sector as it results in a conflict of interest between a non-profit's primary mission of helping humanity through freely sharing knowledge (made possible at little cost by the internet) and a desire to maximize short term revenues through charging licensing fees for access to patents and copyrights. In essence, with the change of publishing and communication economics made possible by the wide spread use of the internet, tax-exempt non-profits have become, perhaps unwittingly, caught up in a new form of "self-dealing", and it is up to donors and grantmakers (and eventually lawmakers) to prevent this by requiring free licensing of results as a condition of their grants and donations."

Glad to see more substantial efforts going on as mentioned in another comment.

There are already quite a few tools in computational journalism to automate the early assessment of a large data dump.

What do Journalists do with Documents?
C+J 2016: Documents, Data Mining and Discovery

As with all things, I'm sure the 20-80 rule applies.

Don't hate on chanting to some kind of beat -it worked for James Hetfield !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Maybe this will cheer you up and lighten the association.

Neil Breen's Double Down (2005) is a film so bad that it's good, or.... at least interesting.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt15...

Featured on Redlettermedia's "Best of the Worst":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Full movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Maybe this will cheer you up and lighten the association.

Neil Breen's Double Down (2005) is a film so bad that it's good, or.... at least interesting.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt15...

Featured on Redlettermedia's "Best of the Worst":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Full movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Now Satya has to do the song and dance, "developers, developers, developers ...." . But this time the music will be arranged by AR Rahman, and the famed dance coach Puliyur Saroja who directed the dances of the Superstar Rajnikant will choreograph the performance.

So then why is there no screen-flickering evident in Operation Wolf?

If you watch Duck Hunt, the effect is obvious, you can clearly see the screen flicker with each shot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

If OW uses the same technique, why is this flicker not evident at all? I remember the complete lack of flickering from playing it in person too.

(It's not that I doubt your explanation, clearly it must be using scanline timing. I just wonder how they made it so "invisible" compared to Duck Hunt)

Good question. You caught me out on one key part: Operation Wolf was platform independent. If you play it on a Nintendo with a light gun you most definitely see the screen flash, there's several youtube videos of this in action and it uses the scanline method. This second scanline method actually became the default for all the SNES titles. On the NES it wasn't preferred because it took quite a lot of processing power to figure out where it was aimed. The SNES made this task much easier.

After a bit of quick research it looks like the most popular system implemented in arcades used multiple IR sources and measured the relative intensity of them. This is not unlike how the pointing of a Wii mote works. The Virtua Cop series popularised this method.

However then I stumbled across: http://www.retrocomputermuseum... If this is what the arcade game was using then it's not a lightgun at all. It's a swivel joystick (Y and Z axis instead of the traditional X and Y) and the gun doesn't even have anything on the front at all and we were all overthinking it :-)

You absolutely should never, ever, use it for anything you plan to read a long time from now. You'd be better of 'tar'ing files directly to /dev/sda.

The ZFS on-disk format is extremely well documented and not that terribly hard to understand.

ZFS On-Disk Specification

It's conceptually well thought out and doesn't require a lot of corner cases. It's stable and common to every current ZFS implementation. I haven't looked at all the feature bits subsequently added, but I don't think many of them complicate recovery of basic files whatsoever.

0:06 / 43:27 Examining ZFS On-Disk Format Using mdb and zdb: Max Bruning

This is not ZFS Internals for Dummies, but do note how the available tools are first rate. Plus, the on-disk structure is integrity checked all the way down. Most likely, any misconception about bit-patterns will be brutally put to rest by the next disk block you fetch.

Finally, there's very little fundamental churn here, because ZFS was designed for the future on day one.

—

ZFS has one Achilles heel: the absence of block-pointer rewrite. Basically, the integrity layer is overly rigid about block placement, and thus certain kinds of desired flexibility are off the table, now and forever, until ZFS 2.0 comes with a different on-disk placement record (which might never happen, as the principals all refer to BPR in hushed voices as some large, daunting project—probably because maintaining the historical testing standard requires industrial-strength support).

—

Contrary to your ludicrously uninformed tar-pit scenario, ZFS is a paragon of long-term, binary-format stability.

You must somehow think the future can barely start a fire by rubbing two sticks together.

Have you ever turned the pages of Office "Open" XML?

This is potentially a hundred times more baroque, Byzantine, and baffling to some rub-stick deprived future generation, that wakes up severely hung-over and back-to-the-buggies as the dust settles on the AI apocalypse.

(How do we finally beat the AI uprising? Probably though nefarious virus bearing an OOXML payload, which even the ascendant AI-powered globally-distributed firewall fatally misclassifies.)

—

For true geeks, ZFS origin story from the horse's mouth.

The Birth of ZFS by Jeff Bonwick

BP-rewrite mentioned at 18:00. Something technical about DVA (data virtual address). Then a horrible "bolt on" is mentioned. Then a mike drop.

Circa 7m: it's not going to be a team of 80 people, it's just going to be me and Matt at the white board all day, every day. (And y'all knows how that goes. Turns out "tank" is a character from the Matrix. )

Circa 11m20: ztest and zloop

So we realized very quickly we could just create files in /tmp, pretend that they're disk drives, and then issue all the read and write commands and transactions from our test program and exercise all the code from userland.

The really big advantage of that was that it gave us the ability not just to test the datapath, which is pretty easy to do with normal stress tests, but also to test the administrative path.

So you could have things like: What happens if one thread is trying to attach a mirror, while another thread is trying to detach it, while another is trying to write, while somebody else is trying to resilver?"

In practice, those things are very hard to test with actual hardware, because it just takes a long time to do those things, but because we had very small devices that were really just /tmp files which were super fast, and because the cost of killing ztest and restarting it was measured in milliseconds, it meant we could crank through the

You absolutely should never, ever, use it for anything you plan to read a long time from now. You'd be better of 'tar'ing files directly to /dev/sda.

The ZFS on-disk format is extremely well documented and not that terribly hard to understand.

ZFS On-Disk Specification

It's conceptually well thought out and doesn't require a lot of corner cases. It's stable and common to every current ZFS implementation. I haven't looked at all the feature bits subsequently added, but I don't think many of them complicate recovery of basic files whatsoever.

0:06 / 43:27 Examining ZFS On-Disk Format Using mdb and zdb: Max Bruning

This is not ZFS Internals for Dummies, but do note how the available tools are first rate. Plus, the on-disk structure is integrity checked all the way down. Most likely, any misconception about bit-patterns will be brutally put to rest by the next disk block you fetch.

Finally, there's very little fundamental churn here, because ZFS was designed for the future on day one.

—

ZFS has one Achilles heel: the absence of block-pointer rewrite. Basically, the integrity layer is overly rigid about block placement, and thus certain kinds of desired flexibility are off the table, now and forever, until ZFS 2.0 comes with a different on-disk placement record (which might never happen, as the principals all refer to BPR in hushed voices as some large, daunting project—probably because maintaining the historical testing standard requires industrial-strength support).

—

Contrary to your ludicrously uninformed tar-pit scenario, ZFS is a paragon of long-term, binary-format stability.

You must somehow think the future can barely start a fire by rubbing two sticks together.

Have you ever turned the pages of Office "Open" XML?

This is potentially a hundred times more baroque, Byzantine, and baffling to some rub-stick deprived future generation, that wakes up severely hung-over and back-to-the-buggies as the dust settles on the AI apocalypse.

(How do we finally beat the AI uprising? Probably though nefarious virus bearing an OOXML payload, which even the ascendant AI-powered globally-distributed firewall fatally misclassifies.)

—

For true geeks, ZFS origin story from the horse's mouth.

The Birth of ZFS by Jeff Bonwick

BP-rewrite mentioned at 18:00. Something technical about DVA (data virtual address). Then a horrible "bolt on" is mentioned. Then a mike drop.

Circa 7m: it's not going to be a team of 80 people, it's just going to be me and Matt at the white board all day, every day. (And y'all knows how that goes. Turns out "tank" is a character from the Matrix. )

Circa 11m20: ztest and zloop

So we realized very quickly we could just create files in /tmp, pretend that they're disk drives, and then issue all the read and write commands and transactions from our test program and exercise all the code from userland.

The really big advantage of that was that it gave us the ability not just to test the datapath, which is pretty easy to do with normal stress tests, but also to test the administrative path.

So you could have things like: What happens if one thread is trying to attach a mirror, while another thread is trying to detach it, while another is trying to write, while somebody else is trying to resilver?"

In practice, those things are very hard to test with actual hardware, because it just takes a long time to do those things, but because we had very small devices that were really just /tmp files which were super fast, and because the cost of killing ztest and restarting it was measured in milliseconds, it meant we could crank through the

The device error correction is probabilistic. It won't necessarily know the data is "bad". And there can be firmware bugs which make it return or store bad data. What about phantom reads and writes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... is a very interesting presentation from Bryan Cantrill about all sorts of bitrot and storage stuff.

Obligatory:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r36TcG5XZDg

Everyone knows there is an ancient Martian atmosphere generator beneath the surface.

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Untrusting the CPU (33c3)
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The Intel ME subsystem can take over your machine, can't be audited

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Untrusting the CPU (33c3)
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The Intel ME subsystem can take over your machine, can't be audited

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The Intel ME subsystem can take over your machine, can't be audited

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The Intel ME subsystem can take over your machine, can't be audited

See subject: I point out verifiable data the President of the United States thinks CNN (arstechnica's parent) = trash https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDFl_EdqwWI/ straight from his own mouth.

* Good enough for me!

APK

P.S.=> I seal the deal arstechnica's own like you stalk/harass me & I made ars EAT THEIR WORDS here https://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10320833&cid=53976475/ by letting /. peers do it for me speaking for me & their estimation of a program users here like I created vs. their off-topic deranged stalker bs, easily as always (not a first)... apk

Video summary:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb-srOfRqNc

So then why is there no screen-flickering evident in Operation Wolf?

If you watch Duck Hunt, the effect is obvious, you can clearly see the screen flicker with each shot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

If OW uses the same technique, why is this flicker not evident at all? I remember the complete lack of flickering from playing it in person too.

(It's not that I doubt your explanation, clearly it must be using scanline timing. I just wonder how they made it so "invisible" compared to Duck Hunt)

NSA/CIA/GCHQ Shills kept down voting this:

Your Intel CPU is backdoored and it is wide open, right now.

The backdoor is on all modern intel CPU/Chipset and is marketed as vPro/AMT/Small Business Advantage/Anti-Theft Technology, it is in all Core i3/i5/i7/Xeon CPU/Chipset in the past 6 years.

Remember *3 Billion devices run JAVA* because everyone's Intel CPU backdoor is running it.

REcon 2014 - Intel Management Engine Secrets

CCC Intel CPU backdoor live hack demonstration, keystrokes logged and sent over wire, wireshark can't detect packet because the Intel backdoor runs above the OS:
Towards (reasonably) trustworthy x86 laptops
Untrusting the CPU (33c3)
30C3 To Protect And Infect - The militarization of the Internet
Jacob Appelbaum - To Protect and Infect Part 2 - At 30c3 on Mass Surveillance Tools & Software

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The Intel ME subsystem can take over your machine, can't be audited

Tools to remove Intel backdoor firmware (You need to physically clip onto a 8pins chip on motherboards to download/neutralize/flash the rom, nothing else can touch it), the backdoor is designed to shutdown your machine within 30 minutes after boot, if you just remove the backdoor and don't handle checksums correctly:
https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner.

Neutralize your Intel backdoor:

Neutralize ME firmware on SandyBridge and IvyBridge platforms

First introduced in Intelâ(TM)s 965 Express Chipset Family, the Intel Management Engine (ME) is a separate computing environment physically located in the (G)MCH chip (for Core 2 family CPUs which is separate from the northbridge), or PCH chip replacing ICH(for Core i3/i5/i7 which is integrated with northbridge).

The ME consists of an individual processor core, code and data caches, a timer, and a secure internal bus to which additional devices are connected, including a cryptography engine, internal ROM and RAM, memory controllers, and a direct memory access (DMA) engine to access the host operating systemâ(TM)s memory as well as to reserve a region of protected external memory to supplement the MEâ(TM)s limited internal RAM. The ME also has network access with its own MAC address through the Intel Gigabit Ethernet Controller integrated in the southbridge (ICH or PCH).

The Intel Management Engine with its proprietary firmware has complete access to and control over the PC: it can power on or shut down the PC, read all open files, examine all running applications, track all keys pressed and mouse movements, and even capture or display images on the screen. And it has a network interface that is demonstrably insecure, which can allow an attacker on the network to inject rootkits that completely compromise the PC and can report to the attacker all activities performed on the PC. It is a threat to freedom, security, and privacy that canâ(TM)t be ignored.

https://hackaday.com/tag/intel-management-engine/

Five or so years ago, Intel rolled out something horrible. Intelâ(TM)s Management Engine (ME) is a completely separate computing environment running on Intel chipsets that has access to everything. The ME has network access, access to the host operating system, memory, and cryptography engine. The ME can be used remotely even if the PC is powered off. If that sounds scary, it gets e

NSA/CIA/GCHQ Shills kept down voting this:

Your Intel CPU is backdoored and it is wide open, right now.

The backdoor is on all modern intel CPU/Chipset and is marketed as vPro/AMT/Small Business Advantage/Anti-Theft Technology, it is in all Core i3/i5/i7/Xeon CPU/Chipset in the past 6 years.

Remember *3 Billion devices run JAVA* because everyone's Intel CPU backdoor is running it.

REcon 2014 - Intel Management Engine Secrets

CCC Intel CPU backdoor live hack demonstration, keystrokes logged and sent over wire, wireshark can't detect packet because the Intel backdoor runs above the OS:
Towards (reasonably) trustworthy x86 laptops
Untrusting the CPU (33c3)
30C3 To Protect And Infect - The militarization of the Internet
Jacob Appelbaum - To Protect and Infect Part 2 - At 30c3 on Mass Surveillance Tools & Software

More links in this discussion:
The Intel ME subsystem can take over your machine, can't be audited

Tools to remove Intel backdoor firmware (You need to physically clip onto a 8pins chip on motherboards to download/neutralize/flash the rom, nothing else can touch it), the backdoor is designed to shutdown your machine within 30 minutes after boot, if you just remove the backdoor and don't handle checksums correctly:
https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner.

Neutralize your Intel backdoor:

Neutralize ME firmware on SandyBridge and IvyBridge platforms

First introduced in Intelâ(TM)s 965 Express Chipset Family, the Intel Management Engine (ME) is a separate computing environment physically located in the (G)MCH chip (for Core 2 family CPUs which is separate from the northbridge), or PCH chip replacing ICH(for Core i3/i5/i7 which is integrated with northbridge).

The ME consists of an individual processor core, code and data caches, a timer, and a secure internal bus to which additional devices are connected, including a cryptography engine, internal ROM and RAM, memory controllers, and a direct memory access (DMA) engine to access the host operating systemâ(TM)s memory as well as to reserve a region of protected external memory to supplement the MEâ(TM)s limited internal RAM. The ME also has network access with its own MAC address through the Intel Gigabit Ethernet Controller integrated in the southbridge (ICH or PCH).

The Intel Management Engine with its proprietary firmware has complete access to and control over the PC: it can power on or shut down the PC, read all open files, examine all running applications, track all keys pressed and mouse movements, and even capture or display images on the screen. And it has a network interface that is demonstrably insecure, which can allow an attacker on the network to inject rootkits that completely compromise the PC and can report to the attacker all activities performed on the PC. It is a threat to freedom, security, and privacy that canâ(TM)t be ignored.

https://hackaday.com/tag/intel-management-engine/

Five or so years ago, Intel rolled out something horrible. Intelâ(TM)s Management Engine (ME) is a completely separate computing environment running on Intel chipsets that has access to everything. The ME has network access, access to the host operating system, memory, and cryptography engine. The ME can be used remotely even if the PC is powered off. If that sounds scary, it gets e

NSA/CIA/GCHQ Shills kept down voting this:

Your Intel CPU is backdoored and it is wide open, right now.

The backdoor is on all modern intel CPU/Chipset and is marketed as vPro/AMT/Small Business Advantage/Anti-Theft Technology, it is in all Core i3/i5/i7/Xeon CPU/Chipset in the past 6 years.

Remember *3 Billion devices run JAVA* because everyone's Intel CPU backdoor is running it.

REcon 2014 - Intel Management Engine Secrets

CCC Intel CPU backdoor live hack demonstration, keystrokes logged and sent over wire, wireshark can't detect packet because the Intel backdoor runs above the OS:
Towards (reasonably) trustworthy x86 laptops
Untrusting the CPU (33c3)
30C3 To Protect And Infect - The militarization of the Internet
Jacob Appelbaum - To Protect and Infect Part 2 - At 30c3 on Mass Surveillance Tools & Software

More links in this discussion:
The Intel ME subsystem can take over your machine, can't be audited

Tools to remove Intel backdoor firmware (You need to physically clip onto a 8pins chip on motherboards to download/neutralize/flash the rom, nothing else can touch it), the backdoor is designed to shutdown your machine within 30 minutes after boot, if you just remove the backdoor and don't handle checksums correctly:
https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner.

Neutralize your Intel backdoor:

Neutralize ME firmware on SandyBridge and IvyBridge platforms

First introduced in Intelâ(TM)s 965 Express Chipset Family, the Intel Management Engine (ME) is a separate computing environment physically located in the (G)MCH chip (for Core 2 family CPUs which is separate from the northbridge), or PCH chip replacing ICH(for Core i3/i5/i7 which is integrated with northbridge).

The ME consists of an individual processor core, code and data caches, a timer, and a secure internal bus to which additional devices are connected, including a cryptography engine, internal ROM and RAM, memory controllers, and a direct memory access (DMA) engine to access the host operating systemâ(TM)s memory as well as to reserve a region of protected external memory to supplement the MEâ(TM)s limited internal RAM. The ME also has network access with its own MAC address through the Intel Gigabit Ethernet Controller integrated in the southbridge (ICH or PCH).

The Intel Management Engine with its proprietary firmware has complete access to and control over the PC: it can power on or shut down the PC, read all open files, examine all running applications, track all keys pressed and mouse movements, and even capture or display images on the screen. And it has a network interface that is demonstrably insecure, which can allow an attacker on the network to inject rootkits that completely compromise the PC and can report to the attacker all activities performed on the PC. It is a threat to freedom, security, and privacy that canâ(TM)t be ignored.

https://hackaday.com/tag/intel-management-engine/

Five or so years ago, Intel rolled out something horrible. Intelâ(TM)s Management Engine (ME) is a completely separate computing environment running on Intel chipsets that has access to everything. The ME has network access, access to the host operating system, memory, and cryptography engine. The ME can be used remotely even if the PC is powered off. If that sounds scary, it gets e

NSA/CIA/GCHQ Shills kept down voting this:

Your Intel CPU is backdoored and it is wide open, right now.

The backdoor is on all modern intel CPU/Chipset and is marketed as vPro/AMT/Small Business Advantage/Anti-Theft Technology, it is in all Core i3/i5/i7/Xeon CPU/Chipset in the past 6 years.

Remember *3 Billion devices run JAVA* because everyone's Intel CPU backdoor is running it.

REcon 2014 - Intel Management Engine Secrets

CCC Intel CPU backdoor live hack demonstration, keystrokes logged and sent over wire, wireshark can't detect packet because the Intel backdoor runs above the OS:
Towards (reasonably) trustworthy x86 laptops
Untrusting the CPU (33c3)
30C3 To Protect And Infect - The militarization of the Internet
Jacob Appelbaum - To Protect and Infect Part 2 - At 30c3 on Mass Surveillance Tools & Software

More links in this discussion:
The Intel ME subsystem can take over your machine, can't be audited

Tools to remove Intel backdoor firmware (You need to physically clip onto a 8pins chip on motherboards to download/neutralize/flash the rom, nothing else can touch it), the backdoor is designed to shutdown your machine within 30 minutes after boot, if you just remove the backdoor and don't handle checksums correctly:
https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner.

Neutralize your Intel backdoor:

Neutralize ME firmware on SandyBridge and IvyBridge platforms

First introduced in Intelâ(TM)s 965 Express Chipset Family, the Intel Management Engine (ME) is a separate computing environment physically located in the (G)MCH chip (for Core 2 family CPUs which is separate from the northbridge), or PCH chip replacing ICH(for Core i3/i5/i7 which is integrated with northbridge).

The ME consists of an individual processor core, code and data caches, a timer, and a secure internal bus to which additional devices are connected, including a cryptography engine, internal ROM and RAM, memory controllers, and a direct memory access (DMA) engine to access the host operating systemâ(TM)s memory as well as to reserve a region of protected external memory to supplement the MEâ(TM)s limited internal RAM. The ME also has network access with its own MAC address through the Intel Gigabit Ethernet Controller integrated in the southbridge (ICH or PCH).

The Intel Management Engine with its proprietary firmware has complete access to and control over the PC: it can power on or shut down the PC, read all open files, examine all running applications, track all keys pressed and mouse movements, and even capture or display images on the screen. And it has a network interface that is demonstrably insecure, which can allow an attacker on the network to inject rootkits that completely compromise the PC and can report to the attacker all activities performed on the PC. It is a threat to freedom, security, and privacy that canâ(TM)t be ignored.

https://hackaday.com/tag/intel-management-engine/

Five or so years ago, Intel rolled out something horrible. Intelâ(TM)s Management Engine (ME) is a completely separate computing environment running on Intel chipsets that has access to everything. The ME has network access, access to the host operating system, memory, and cryptography engine. The ME can be used remotely even if the PC is powered off. If that sounds scary, it gets e

NSA/CIA/GCHQ Shills kept down voting this:

Your Intel CPU is backdoored and it is wide open, right now.

The backdoor is on all modern intel CPU/Chipset and is marketed as vPro/AMT/Small Business Advantage/Anti-Theft Technology, it is in all Core i3/i5/i7/Xeon CPU/Chipset in the past 6 years.

Remember *3 Billion devices run JAVA* because everyone's Intel CPU backdoor is running it.

REcon 2014 - Intel Management Engine Secrets

CCC Intel CPU backdoor live hack demonstration, keystrokes logged and sent over wire, wireshark can't detect packet because the Intel backdoor runs above the OS:
Towards (reasonably) trustworthy x86 laptops
Untrusting the CPU (33c3)
30C3 To Protect And Infect - The militarization of the Internet
Jacob Appelbaum - To Protect and Infect Part 2 - At 30c3 on Mass Surveillance Tools & Software

More links in this discussion:
The Intel ME subsystem can take over your machine, can't be audited

Tools to remove Intel backdoor firmware (You need to physically clip onto a 8pins chip on motherboards to download/neutralize/flash the rom, nothing else can touch it), the backdoor is designed to shutdown your machine within 30 minutes after boot, if you just remove the backdoor and don't handle checksums correctly:
https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner.

Neutralize your Intel backdoor:

Neutralize ME firmware on SandyBridge and IvyBridge platforms

First introduced in Intelâ(TM)s 965 Express Chipset Family, the Intel Management Engine (ME) is a separate computing environment physically located in the (G)MCH chip (for Core 2 family CPUs which is separate from the northbridge), or PCH chip replacing ICH(for Core i3/i5/i7 which is integrated with northbridge).

The ME consists of an individual processor core, code and data caches, a timer, and a secure internal bus to which additional devices are connected, including a cryptography engine, internal ROM and RAM, memory controllers, and a direct memory access (DMA) engine to access the host operating systemâ(TM)s memory as well as to reserve a region of protected external memory to supplement the MEâ(TM)s limited internal RAM. The ME also has network access with its own MAC address through the Intel Gigabit Ethernet Controller integrated in the southbridge (ICH or PCH).

The Intel Management Engine with its proprietary firmware has complete access to and control over the PC: it can power on or shut down the PC, read all open files, examine all running applications, track all keys pressed and mouse movements, and even capture or display images on the screen. And it has a network interface that is demonstrably insecure, which can allow an attacker on the network to inject rootkits that completely compromise the PC and can report to the attacker all activities performed on the PC. It is a threat to freedom, security, and privacy that canâ(TM)t be ignored.

https://hackaday.com/tag/intel-management-engine/

Five or so years ago, Intel rolled out something horrible. Intelâ(TM)s Management Engine (ME) is a completely separate computing environment running on Intel chipsets that has access to everything. The ME has network access, access to the host operating system, memory, and cryptography engine. The ME can be used remotely even if the PC is powered off. If that sounds scary, it gets e

NSA/CIA/GCHQ Shills kept down voting this:

Your Intel CPU is backdoored and it is wide open, right now.

The backdoor is on all modern intel CPU/Chipset and is marketed as vPro/AMT/Small Business Advantage/Anti-Theft Technology, it is in all Core i3/i5/i7/Xeon CPU/Chipset in the past 6 years.

Remember *3 Billion devices run JAVA* because everyone's Intel CPU backdoor is running it.

REcon 2014 - Intel Management Engine Secrets

CCC Intel CPU backdoor live hack demonstration, keystrokes logged and sent over wire, wireshark can't detect packet because the Intel backdoor runs above the OS:
Towards (reasonably) trustworthy x86 laptops
Untrusting the CPU (33c3)
30C3 To Protect And Infect - The militarization of the Internet
Jacob Appelbaum - To Protect and Infect Part 2 - At 30c3 on Mass Surveillance Tools & Software

More links in this discussion:
The Intel ME subsystem can take over your machine, can't be audited

Tools to remove Intel backdoor firmware (You need to physically clip onto a 8pins chip on motherboards to download/neutralize/flash the rom, nothing else can touch it), the backdoor is designed to shutdown your machine within 30 minutes after boot, if you just remove the backdoor and don't handle checksums correctly:
https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner.

Neutralize your Intel backdoor:

Neutralize ME firmware on SandyBridge and IvyBridge platforms

First introduced in Intelâ(TM)s 965 Express Chipset Family, the Intel Management Engine (ME) is a separate computing environment physically located in the (G)MCH chip (for Core 2 family CPUs which is separate from the northbridge), or PCH chip replacing ICH(for Core i3/i5/i7 which is integrated with northbridge).

The ME consists of an individual processor core, code and data caches, a timer, and a secure internal bus to which additional devices are connected, including a cryptography engine, internal ROM and RAM, memory controllers, and a direct memory access (DMA) engine to access the host operating systemâ(TM)s memory as well as to reserve a region of protected external memory to supplement the MEâ(TM)s limited internal RAM. The ME also has network access with its own MAC address through the Intel Gigabit Ethernet Controller integrated in the southbridge (ICH or PCH).

The Intel Management Engine with its proprietary firmware has complete access to and control over the PC: it can power on or shut down the PC, read all open files, examine all running applications, track all keys pressed and mouse movements, and even capture or display images on the screen. And it has a network interface that is demonstrably insecure, which can allow an attacker on the network to inject rootkits that completely compromise the PC and can report to the attacker all activities performed on the PC. It is a threat to freedom, security, and privacy that canâ(TM)t be ignored.

https://hackaday.com/tag/intel-management-engine/

Five or so years ago, Intel rolled out something horrible. Intelâ(TM)s Management Engine (ME) is a completely separate computing environment running on Intel chipsets that has access to everything. The ME has network access, access to the host operating system, memory, and cryptography engine. The ME can be used remotely even if the PC is powered off. If that sounds scary, it gets e

NSA/CIA/GCHQ Shills kept down voting this:

Your Intel CPU is backdoored and it is wide open, right now.

The backdoor is on all modern intel CPU/Chipset and is marketed as vPro/AMT/Small Business Advantage/Anti-Theft Technology, it is in all Core i3/i5/i7/Xeon CPU/Chipset in the past 6 years.

Remember *3 Billion devices run JAVA* because everyone's Intel CPU backdoor is running it.

REcon 2014 - Intel Management Engine Secrets

CCC Intel CPU backdoor live hack demonstration, keystrokes logged and sent over wire, wireshark can't detect packet because the Intel backdoor runs above the OS:
Towards (reasonably) trustworthy x86 laptops
Untrusting the CPU (33c3)
30C3 To Protect And Infect - The militarization of the Internet
Jacob Appelbaum - To Protect and Infect Part 2 - At 30c3 on Mass Surveillance Tools & Software

More links in this discussion:
The Intel ME subsystem can take over your machine, can't be audited

Tools to remove Intel backdoor firmware (You need to physically clip onto a 8pins chip on motherboards to download/neutralize/flash the rom, nothing else can touch it), the backdoor is designed to shutdown your machine within 30 minutes after boot, if you just remove the backdoor and don't handle checksums correctly:
https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner.

Neutralize your Intel backdoor:

Neutralize ME firmware on SandyBridge and IvyBridge platforms

First introduced in Intelâ(TM)s 965 Express Chipset Family, the Intel Management Engine (ME) is a separate computing environment physically located in the (G)MCH chip (for Core 2 family CPUs which is separate from the northbridge), or PCH chip replacing ICH(for Core i3/i5/i7 which is integrated with northbridge).

The ME consists of an individual processor core, code and data caches, a timer, and a secure internal bus to which additional devices are connected, including a cryptography engine, internal ROM and RAM, memory controllers, and a direct memory access (DMA) engine to access the host operating systemâ(TM)s memory as well as to reserve a region of protected external memory to supplement the MEâ(TM)s limited internal RAM. The ME also has network access with its own MAC address through the Intel Gigabit Ethernet Controller integrated in the southbridge (ICH or PCH).

The Intel Management Engine with its proprietary firmware has complete access to and control over the PC: it can power on or shut down the PC, read all open files, examine all running applications, track all keys pressed and mouse movements, and even capture or display images on the screen. And it has a network interface that is demonstrably insecure, which can allow an attacker on the network to inject rootkits that completely compromise the PC and can report to the attacker all activities performed on the PC. It is a threat to freedom, security, and privacy that canâ(TM)t be ignored.

https://hackaday.com/tag/intel-management-engine/

Five or so years ago, Intel rolled out something horrible. Intelâ(TM)s Management Engine (ME) is a completely separate computing environment running on Intel chipsets that has access to everything. The ME has network access, access to the host operating system, memory, and cryptography engine. The ME can be used remotely even if the PC is powered off. If that sounds scary, it gets e

NSA/CIA/GCHQ Shills kept down voting this:

Your Intel CPU is backdoored and it is wide open, right now.

The backdoor is on all modern intel CPU/Chipset and is marketed as vPro/AMT/Small Business Advantage/Anti-Theft Technology, it is in all Core i3/i5/i7/Xeon CPU/Chipset in the past 6 years.

Remember *3 Billion devices run JAVA* because everyone's Intel CPU backdoor is running it.

REcon 2014 - Intel Management Engine Secrets

CCC Intel CPU backdoor live hack demonstration, keystrokes logged and sent over wire, wireshark can't detect packet because the Intel backdoor runs above the OS:
Towards (reasonably) trustworthy x86 laptops
Untrusting the CPU (33c3)
30C3 To Protect And Infect - The militarization of the Internet
Jacob Appelbaum - To Protect and Infect Part 2 - At 30c3 on Mass Surveillance Tools & Software

More links in this discussion:
The Intel ME subsystem can take over your machine, can't be audited

Tools to remove Intel backdoor firmware (You need to physically clip onto a 8pins chip on motherboards to download/neutralize/flash the rom, nothing else can touch it), the backdoor is designed to shutdown your machine within 30 minutes after boot, if you just remove the backdoor and don't handle checksums correctly:
https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner.

Neutralize your Intel backdoor:

Neutralize ME firmware on SandyBridge and IvyBridge platforms

First introduced in Intelâ(TM)s 965 Express Chipset Family, the Intel Management Engine (ME) is a separate computing environment physically located in the (G)MCH chip (for Core 2 family CPUs which is separate from the northbridge), or PCH chip replacing ICH(for Core i3/i5/i7 which is integrated with northbridge).

The ME consists of an individual processor core, code and data caches, a timer, and a secure internal bus to which additional devices are connected, including a cryptography engine, internal ROM and RAM, memory controllers, and a direct memory access (DMA) engine to access the host operating systemâ(TM)s memory as well as to reserve a region of protected external memory to supplement the MEâ(TM)s limited internal RAM. The ME also has network access with its own MAC address through the Intel Gigabit Ethernet Controller integrated in the southbridge (ICH or PCH).

The Intel Management Engine with its proprietary firmware has complete access to and control over the PC: it can power on or shut down the PC, read all open files, examine all running applications, track all keys pressed and mouse movements, and even capture or display images on the screen. And it has a network interface that is demonstrably insecure, which can allow an attacker on the network to inject rootkits that completely compromise the PC and can report to the attacker all activities performed on the PC. It is a threat to freedom, security, and privacy that canâ(TM)t be ignored.

https://hackaday.com/tag/intel-management-engine/

Five or so years ago, Intel rolled out something horrible. Intelâ(TM)s Management Engine (ME) is a completely separate computing environment running on Intel chipsets that has access to everything. The ME has network access, access to the host operating system, memory, and cryptography engine. The ME can be used remotely even if the PC is powered off. If that sounds scary, it gets e

NSA/CIA/GCHQ Shills kept down voting this:

Your Intel CPU is backdoored and it is wide open, right now.

The backdoor is on all modern intel CPU/Chipset and is marketed as vPro/AMT/Small Business Advantage/Anti-Theft Technology, it is in all Core i3/i5/i7/Xeon CPU/Chipset in the past 6 years.

Remember *3 Billion devices run JAVA* because everyone's Intel CPU backdoor is running it.

REcon 2014 - Intel Management Engine Secrets

CCC Intel CPU backdoor live hack demonstration, keystrokes logged and sent over wire, wireshark can't detect packet because the Intel backdoor runs above the OS:
Towards (reasonably) trustworthy x86 laptops
Untrusting the CPU (33c3)
30C3 To Protect And Infect - The militarization of the Internet
Jacob Appelbaum - To Protect and Infect Part 2 - At 30c3 on Mass Surveillance Tools & Software

More links in this discussion:
The Intel ME subsystem can take over your machine, can't be audited

Tools to remove Intel backdoor firmware (You need to physically clip onto a 8pins chip on motherboards to download/neutralize/flash the rom, nothing else can touch it), the backdoor is designed to shutdown your machine within 30 minutes after boot, if you just remove the backdoor and don't handle checksums correctly:
https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner.

Neutralize your Intel backdoor:

Neutralize ME firmware on SandyBridge and IvyBridge platforms

First introduced in Intelâ(TM)s 965 Express Chipset Family, the Intel Management Engine (ME) is a separate computing environment physically located in the (G)MCH chip (for Core 2 family CPUs which is separate from the northbridge), or PCH chip replacing ICH(for Core i3/i5/i7 which is integrated with northbridge).

The ME consists of an individual processor core, code and data caches, a timer, and a secure internal bus to which additional devices are connected, including a cryptography engine, internal ROM and RAM, memory controllers, and a direct memory access (DMA) engine to access the host operating systemâ(TM)s memory as well as to reserve a region of protected external memory to supplement the MEâ(TM)s limited internal RAM. The ME also has network access with its own MAC address through the Intel Gigabit Ethernet Controller integrated in the southbridge (ICH or PCH).

The Intel Management Engine with its proprietary firmware has complete access to and control over the PC: it can power on or shut down the PC, read all open files, examine all running applications, track all keys pressed and mouse movements, and even capture or display images on the screen. And it has a network interface that is demonstrably insecure, which can allow an attacker on the network to inject rootkits that completely compromise the PC and can report to the attacker all activities performed on the PC. It is a threat to freedom, security, and privacy that canâ(TM)t be ignored.

https://hackaday.com/tag/intel-management-engine/

Five or so years ago, Intel rolled out something horrible. Intelâ(TM)s Management Engine (ME) is a completely separate computing environment running on Intel chipsets that has access to everything. The ME has network access, access to the host operating system, memory, and cryptography engine. The ME can be used remotely even if the PC is powered off. If that sounds scary, it gets e

NSA/CIA/GCHQ Shills kept down voting this:

Your Intel CPU is backdoored and it is wide open, right now.

The backdoor is on all modern intel CPU/Chipset and is marketed as vPro/AMT/Small Business Advantage/Anti-Theft Technology, it is in all Core i3/i5/i7/Xeon CPU/Chipset in the past 6 years.

Remember *3 Billion devices run JAVA* because everyone's Intel CPU backdoor is running it.

REcon 2014 - Intel Management Engine Secrets

CCC Intel CPU backdoor live hack demonstration, keystrokes logged and sent over wire, wireshark can't detect packet because the Intel backdoor runs above the OS:
Towards (reasonably) trustworthy x86 laptops
Untrusting the CPU (33c3)
30C3 To Protect And Infect - The militarization of the Internet
Jacob Appelbaum - To Protect and Infect Part 2 - At 30c3 on Mass Surveillance Tools & Software

More links in this discussion:
The Intel ME subsystem can take over your machine, can't be audited

Tools to remove Intel backdoor firmware (You need to physically clip onto a 8pins chip on motherboards to download/neutralize/flash the rom, nothing else can touch it), the backdoor is designed to shutdown your machine within 30 minutes after boot, if you just remove the backdoor and don't handle checksums correctly:
https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner.

Neutralize your Intel backdoor:

Neutralize ME firmware on SandyBridge and IvyBridge platforms

First introduced in Intelâ(TM)s 965 Express Chipset Family, the Intel Management Engine (ME) is a separate computing environment physically located in the (G)MCH chip (for Core 2 family CPUs which is separate from the northbridge), or PCH chip replacing ICH(for Core i3/i5/i7 which is integrated with northbridge).

The ME consists of an individual processor core, code and data caches, a timer, and a secure internal bus to which additional devices are connected, including a cryptography engine, internal ROM and RAM, memory controllers, and a direct memory access (DMA) engine to access the host operating systemâ(TM)s memory as well as to reserve a region of protected external memory to supplement the MEâ(TM)s limited internal RAM. The ME also has network access with its own MAC address through the Intel Gigabit Ethernet Controller integrated in the southbridge (ICH or PCH).

The Intel Management Engine with its proprietary firmware has complete access to and control over the PC: it can power on or shut down the PC, read all open files, examine all running applications, track all keys pressed and mouse movements, and even capture or display images on the screen. And it has a network interface that is demonstrably insecure, which can allow an attacker on the network to inject rootkits that completely compromise the PC and can report to the attacker all activities performed on the PC. It is a threat to freedom, security, and privacy that canâ(TM)t be ignored.

https://hackaday.com/tag/intel-management-engine/

Five or so years ago, Intel rolled out something horrible. Intelâ(TM)s Management Engine (ME) is a completely separate computing environment running on Intel chipsets that has access to everything. The ME has network access, access to the host operating system, memory, and cryptography engine. The ME can be used remotely even if the PC is powered off. If that sounds scary, it gets e

The answer is Moops

RFID can be applied to humans as well for the "cashless society" # of the beast 666 style https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufMWQkLQZAo/ so perhaps these poachers methods can be applied to save your ass one day folks (not that I agree w/ needless killing of animals, especially endangered ones (as I feel that animals are quite often BETTER PEOPLE than PEOPLE are - especially to one another)).

IIRC, they already use this type of system (no chip) to track cattle via satellite monitoring (no chip required, just a RFID ink tattoo - 'branded by laserscan').

* I don't get it - why would ANYONE head us into a doomsday prophecy for? Does it have benefits (good ones)?? Maybe - the bad ones FAR outweigh those & yes it frightens me & should YOU also,

APK

P.S.=> Once the 'powers that be' accomplish their goal of destroying the U.S. PetroDollar, it's going to be their REAL GOAL of TRACKING YOU & keeping you UNDER CONTROL (under their thumb, you get outta line, they cut off your "$") - I merely entertain the possibility of such a dystopian future - always plan ahead & looking @ the 'bright side' only = dumb imo & experience (hope for the best, plan for the worst & most of all be aware of such possibles)... apk

NSA/CIA/GCHQ Shills kept down voting this from Score 3:

Your Intel CPU is backdoored and it is wide open, right now.

The backdoor is on all modern intel CPU/Chipset and is marketed as vPro/AMT/Small Business Advantage/Anti-Theft Technology.

Remember *3 Billion devices run JAVA* because everyone's motherboard is running it.

REcon 2014 - Intel Management Engine Secrets

CCC Intel CPU backdoor live hack demonstration, keystrokes logged and sent over wire, wireshark can't detect packet because the Intel backdoor runs above the OS:
30C3 To Protect And Infect - The militarization of the Internet
Jacob Appelbaum - To Protect and Infect Part 2 - At 30c3 on Mass Surveillance Tools & Software
Towards (reasonably) trustworthy x86 laptops

Tools to remove Intel backdoor firmware (You need to physically clip onto a 8pins chip on motherboards to download/neutralize/flash the rom, nothing else can touch it):
https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner.

Neutralize your Intel backdoor:

Neutralize ME firmware on SandyBridge and IvyBridge platforms

First introduced in Intelâ(TM)s 965 Express Chipset Family, the Intel Management Engine (ME) is a separate computing environment physically located in the (G)MCH chip (for Core 2 family CPUs which is separate from the northbridge), or PCH chip replacing ICH(for Core i3/i5/i7 which is integrated with northbridge).

The ME consists of an individual processor core, code and data caches, a timer, and a secure internal bus to which additional devices are connected, including a cryptography engine, internal ROM and RAM, memory controllers, and a direct memory access (DMA) engine to access the host operating systemâ(TM)s memory as well as to reserve a region of protected external memory to supplement the MEâ(TM)s limited internal RAM. The ME also has network access with its own MAC address through the Intel Gigabit Ethernet Controller integrated in the southbridge (ICH or PCH).

The Intel Management Engine with its proprietary firmware has complete access to and control over the PC: it can power on or shut down the PC, read all open files, examine all running applications, track all keys pressed and mouse movements, and even capture or display images on the screen. And it has a network interface that is demonstrably insecure, which can allow an attacker on the network to inject rootkits that completely compromise the PC and can report to the attacker all activities performed on the PC. It is a threat to freedom, security, and privacy that canâ(TM)t be ignored.

https://hackaday.com/tag/intel-management-engine/

Five or so years ago, Intel rolled out something horrible. Intelâ(TM)s Management Engine (ME) is a completely separate computing environment running on Intel chipsets that has access to everything. The ME has network access, access to the host operating system, memory, and cryptography engine. The ME can be used remotely even if the PC is powered off. If that sounds scary, it gets even worse: no one knows what the ME is doing, and we canâ(TM)t even look at the code. When â" not âifâ(TM) â" the ME is finally cracked open, every computer running on a recent Intel chip will have a huge security and privacy issue. Intelâ(TM)s Management Engine is the single most dangerous piece of computer hardware ever created.

NSA/CIA/GCHQ Shills kept down voting this from Score 3:

Your Intel CPU is backdoored and it is wide open, right now.

The backdoor is on all modern intel CPU/Chipset and is marketed as vPro/AMT/Small Business Advantage/Anti-Theft Technology.

Remember *3 Billion devices run JAVA* because everyone's motherboard is running it.

REcon 2014 - Intel Management Engine Secrets

CCC Intel CPU backdoor live hack demonstration, keystrokes logged and sent over wire, wireshark can't detect packet because the Intel backdoor runs above the OS:
30C3 To Protect And Infect - The militarization of the Internet
Jacob Appelbaum - To Protect and Infect Part 2 - At 30c3 on Mass Surveillance Tools & Software
Towards (reasonably) trustworthy x86 laptops

Tools to remove Intel backdoor firmware (You need to physically clip onto a 8pins chip on motherboards to download/neutralize/flash the rom, nothing else can touch it):
https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner.

Neutralize your Intel backdoor:

Neutralize ME firmware on SandyBridge and IvyBridge platforms

First introduced in Intelâ(TM)s 965 Express Chipset Family, the Intel Management Engine (ME) is a separate computing environment physically located in the (G)MCH chip (for Core 2 family CPUs which is separate from the northbridge), or PCH chip replacing ICH(for Core i3/i5/i7 which is integrated with northbridge).

The ME consists of an individual processor core, code and data caches, a timer, and a secure internal bus to which additional devices are connected, including a cryptography engine, internal ROM and RAM, memory controllers, and a direct memory access (DMA) engine to access the host operating systemâ(TM)s memory as well as to reserve a region of protected external memory to supplement the MEâ(TM)s limited internal RAM. The ME also has network access with its own MAC address through the Intel Gigabit Ethernet Controller integrated in the southbridge (ICH or PCH).

The Intel Management Engine with its proprietary firmware has complete access to and control over the PC: it can power on or shut down the PC, read all open files, examine all running applications, track all keys pressed and mouse movements, and even capture or display images on the screen. And it has a network interface that is demonstrably insecure, which can allow an attacker on the network to inject rootkits that completely compromise the PC and can report to the attacker all activities performed on the PC. It is a threat to freedom, security, and privacy that canâ(TM)t be ignored.

https://hackaday.com/tag/intel-management-engine/

Five or so years ago, Intel rolled out something horrible. Intelâ(TM)s Management Engine (ME) is a completely separate computing environment running on Intel chipsets that has access to everything. The ME has network access, access to the host operating system, memory, and cryptography engine. The ME can be used remotely even if the PC is powered off. If that sounds scary, it gets even worse: no one knows what the ME is doing, and we canâ(TM)t even look at the code. When â" not âifâ(TM) â" the ME is finally cracked open, every computer running on a recent Intel chip will have a huge security and privacy issue. Intelâ(TM)s Management Engine is the single most dangerous piece of computer hardware ever created.

NSA/CIA/GCHQ Shills kept down voting this from Score 3:

Your Intel CPU is backdoored and it is wide open, right now.

The backdoor is on all modern intel CPU/Chipset and is marketed as vPro/AMT/Small Business Advantage/Anti-Theft Technology.

Remember *3 Billion devices run JAVA* because everyone's motherboard is running it.

REcon 2014 - Intel Management Engine Secrets

CCC Intel CPU backdoor live hack demonstration, keystrokes logged and sent over wire, wireshark can't detect packet because the Intel backdoor runs above the OS:
30C3 To Protect And Infect - The militarization of the Internet
Jacob Appelbaum - To Protect and Infect Part 2 - At 30c3 on Mass Surveillance Tools & Software
Towards (reasonably) trustworthy x86 laptops

Tools to remove Intel backdoor firmware (You need to physically clip onto a 8pins chip on motherboards to download/neutralize/flash the rom, nothing else can touch it):
https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner.

Neutralize your Intel backdoor:

Neutralize ME firmware on SandyBridge and IvyBridge platforms

First introduced in Intelâ(TM)s 965 Express Chipset Family, the Intel Management Engine (ME) is a separate computing environment physically located in the (G)MCH chip (for Core 2 family CPUs which is separate from the northbridge), or PCH chip replacing ICH(for Core i3/i5/i7 which is integrated with northbridge).

The ME consists of an individual processor core, code and data caches, a timer, and a secure internal bus to which additional devices are connected, including a cryptography engine, internal ROM and RAM, memory controllers, and a direct memory access (DMA) engine to access the host operating systemâ(TM)s memory as well as to reserve a region of protected external memory to supplement the MEâ(TM)s limited internal RAM. The ME also has network access with its own MAC address through the Intel Gigabit Ethernet Controller integrated in the southbridge (ICH or PCH).

The Intel Management Engine with its proprietary firmware has complete access to and control over the PC: it can power on or shut down the PC, read all open files, examine all running applications, track all keys pressed and mouse movements, and even capture or display images on the screen. And it has a network interface that is demonstrably insecure, which can allow an attacker on the network to inject rootkits that completely compromise the PC and can report to the attacker all activities performed on the PC. It is a threat to freedom, security, and privacy that canâ(TM)t be ignored.

https://hackaday.com/tag/intel-management-engine/

Five or so years ago, Intel rolled out something horrible. Intelâ(TM)s Management Engine (ME) is a completely separate computing environment running on Intel chipsets that has access to everything. The ME has network access, access to the host operating system, memory, and cryptography engine. The ME can be used remotely even if the PC is powered off. If that sounds scary, it gets even worse: no one knows what the ME is doing, and we canâ(TM)t even look at the code. When â" not âifâ(TM) â" the ME is finally cracked open, every computer running on a recent Intel chip will have a huge security and privacy issue. Intelâ(TM)s Management Engine is the single most dangerous piece of computer hardware ever created.

NSA/CIA/GCHQ Shills kept down voting this from Score 3:

Your Intel CPU is backdoored and it is wide open, right now.

The backdoor is on all modern intel CPU/Chipset and is marketed as vPro/AMT/Small Business Advantage/Anti-Theft Technology.

Remember *3 Billion devices run JAVA* because everyone's motherboard is running it.

REcon 2014 - Intel Management Engine Secrets

CCC Intel CPU backdoor live hack demonstration, keystrokes logged and sent over wire, wireshark can't detect packet because the Intel backdoor runs above the OS:
30C3 To Protect And Infect - The militarization of the Internet
Jacob Appelbaum - To Protect and Infect Part 2 - At 30c3 on Mass Surveillance Tools & Software
Towards (reasonably) trustworthy x86 laptops

Tools to remove Intel backdoor firmware (You need to physically clip onto a 8pins chip on motherboards to download/neutralize/flash the rom, nothing else can touch it):
https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner.

Neutralize your Intel backdoor:

Neutralize ME firmware on SandyBridge and IvyBridge platforms

First introduced in Intelâ(TM)s 965 Express Chipset Family, the Intel Management Engine (ME) is a separate computing environment physically located in the (G)MCH chip (for Core 2 family CPUs which is separate from the northbridge), or PCH chip replacing ICH(for Core i3/i5/i7 which is integrated with northbridge).

The ME consists of an individual processor core, code and data caches, a timer, and a secure internal bus to which additional devices are connected, including a cryptography engine, internal ROM and RAM, memory controllers, and a direct memory access (DMA) engine to access the host operating systemâ(TM)s memory as well as to reserve a region of protected external memory to supplement the MEâ(TM)s limited internal RAM. The ME also has network access with its own MAC address through the Intel Gigabit Ethernet Controller integrated in the southbridge (ICH or PCH).

The Intel Management Engine with its proprietary firmware has complete access to and control over the PC: it can power on or shut down the PC, read all open files, examine all running applications, track all keys pressed and mouse movements, and even capture or display images on the screen. And it has a network interface that is demonstrably insecure, which can allow an attacker on the network to inject rootkits that completely compromise the PC and can report to the attacker all activities performed on the PC. It is a threat to freedom, security, and privacy that canâ(TM)t be ignored.

https://hackaday.com/tag/intel-management-engine/

Five or so years ago, Intel rolled out something horrible. Intelâ(TM)s Management Engine (ME) is a completely separate computing environment running on Intel chipsets that has access to everything. The ME has network access, access to the host operating system, memory, and cryptography engine. The ME can be used remotely even if the PC is powered off. If that sounds scary, it gets even worse: no one knows what the ME is doing, and we canâ(TM)t even look at the code. When â" not âifâ(TM) â" the ME is finally cracked open, every computer running on a recent Intel chip will have a huge security and privacy issue. Intelâ(TM)s Management Engine is the single most dangerous piece of computer hardware ever created.

NSA/CIA/GCHQ Shills kept down voting this from Score 3:

Your Intel CPU is backdoored and it is wide open, right now.

Remember *3 Billion devices run JAVA* because everyone's motherboard is running it.

REcon 2014 - Intel Management Engine Secrets

CCC Intel CPU backdoor live hack demonstration, keystrokes logged and sent over wire, wireshark can't detect packet because the Intel backdoor runs above the OS:
30C3 To Protect And Infect - The militarization of the Internet
Jacob Appelbaum - To Protect and Infect Part 2 - At 30c3 on Mass Surveillance Tools & Software
Towards (reasonably) trustworthy x86 laptops

Tools to remove Intel backdoor firmware (You need to physically clip onto a 8pins chip on motherboards to download/neutralize/flash the rom, nothing else can touch it):
https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner.

Neutralize your Intel backdoor:

Neutralize ME firmware on SandyBridge and IvyBridge platforms

First introduced in Intelâ(TM)s 965 Express Chipset Family, the Intel Management Engine (ME) is a separate computing environment physically located in the (G)MCH chip (for Core 2 family CPUs which is separate from the northbridge), or PCH chip replacing ICH(for Core i3/i5/i7 which is integrated with northbridge).

The ME consists of an individual processor core, code and data caches, a timer, and a secure internal bus to which additional devices are connected, including a cryptography engine, internal ROM and RAM, memory controllers, and a direct memory access (DMA) engine to access the host operating systemâ(TM)s memory as well as to reserve a region of protected external memory to supplement the MEâ(TM)s limited internal RAM. The ME also has network access with its own MAC address through the Intel Gigabit Ethernet Controller integrated in the southbridge (ICH or PCH).

The Intel Management Engine with its proprietary firmware has complete access to and control over the PC: it can power on or shut down the PC, read all open files, examine all running applications, track all keys pressed and mouse movements, and even capture or display images on the screen. And it has a network interface that is demonstrably insecure, which can allow an attacker on the network to inject rootkits that completely compromise the PC and can report to the attacker all activities performed on the PC. It is a threat to freedom, security, and privacy that canâ(TM)t be ignored.

https://hackaday.com/tag/intel-management-engine/

Five or so years ago, Intel rolled out something horrible. Intelâ(TM)s Management Engine (ME) is a completely separate computing environment running on Intel chipsets that has access to everything. The ME has network access, access to the host operating system, memory, and cryptography engine. The ME can be used remotely even if the PC is powered off. If that sounds scary, it gets even worse: no one knows what the ME is doing, and we canâ(TM)t even look at the code. When â" not âifâ(TM) â" the ME is finally cracked open, every computer running on a recent Intel chip will have a huge security and privacy issue. Intelâ(TM)s Management Engine is the single most dangerous piece of computer hardware ever created.

Intel Active Management Technology

Almost all AMT features are available even if the PC is in a powered-off sta