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    All Intel Chips are Spy Enabled

    MINIX: ​Intel's hidden in-chip operating system

    Buried deep inside your computer's Intel chip is the MINIX operating system and a software stack, which includes networking and a web server. It's slow, hard to get at, and insecure as insecure can be.
    In addition, thanks to Minnich and his fellow researchers' work, MINIX is running on three separate x86 cores on modern chips. There, it's running:

    TCP/IP networking stacks (4 and 6)
    File systems
    Drivers (disk, net, USB, mouse)
    Web servers


    MINIX also has access to your passwords. It can also reimage your computer's firmware even if it's powered off. Let me repeat that. If your computer is "off" but still plugged in, MINIX can still potentially change your computer's fundamental settings.

    And, for even more fun, it "can implement self-modifying code that can persist across power cycles". So, if an exploit happens here, even if you unplug your server in one last desperate attempt to save it, the attack will still be there waiting for you when you plug it back in.
    http://www.zdnet.com/article/minix-i...rating-system/

    If you have some tech skills, you can poke around and see what they have switched on or go further (at your own risk) and attempt to disable it.

    https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner

    All Intel Chips are Spy Enabled-screenshot-2018-01-04-06-06-09-jpg

    Another crazy "conspiracy theory" confirmed as FACT.

    Some more technical stuff..
    The Active Management Technology (AMT) application, part of the Intel “vPro” brand, is a Web server and application code that enables remote users to power on, power off, view information about, and otherwise manage the PC. It can be used remotely even while the PC is powered off (via Wake-on-Lan). Traffic is encrypted using SSL/TLS libraries, but recall that all of the major SSL/TLS implementations have had highly publicized vulnerabilities. The AMT application itself has known vulnerabilities, which have been exploited to develop rootkits and keyloggers and covertly gain encrypted access to the management features of a PC. Remember that the ME has full access to the PC’s RAM. This means that an attacker exploiting any of these vulnerabilities may gain access to everything on the PC as it runs: all open files, all running applications, all keys pressed, and more.
    https://libreboot.org/faq.html#intelme

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    Security flaws put virtually all phones, computers at risk

    Security researchers on Wednesday disclosed a set of security flaws that they said could let hackers steal sensitive information from nearly every modern computing device containing chips from Intel Corp <INTC.O>, Advanced Micro Devices Inc <AMD.O> and ARM Holdings.
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/design-fl...--finance.html

    > flaw

    lol

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    Do you think the US government put them up to that ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Colonel View Post
    Do you think the US government put them up to that ?
    Which one?

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    Quote Originally Posted by John View Post
    Which one?
    You tell me..

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    I posted the information that every computer is open to intrusion/surveillance. I won't speculate as to who is doing the intruding or who put who up to it.

    I will tell you that we are living in age of unprecedented truth telling. You are free to embrace it or deny/ridicule/whatever it is that you feel comfortable with.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John View Post
    I posted the information that every computer is open to intrusion/surveillance. I won't speculate as to who is doing the intruding or who put who up to it.

    I will tell you that we are living in age of unprecedented truth telling. You are free to embrace it or deny/ridicule/whatever it is that you feel comfortable with.
    I'm not ridiculing that, absolutely not.

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    So John, is this the same thing as I posted in a new thread?

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    Quote Originally Posted by A.J. View Post
    So John, is this the same thing as I posted in a new thread?
    It's OK, your post is centric to phones, tablets, etc. , the spy software is built into all chips, not a "flaw".

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