Intel chips
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Can Alguin explain this to me? Hidden backdoor in the Intel chips?
http://www.zdnet.com/article/minix-intels-hidden-in-chip-operating-system/
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I'm not sure, but I guess this UEFI-based-on-minix is legacy and obsolete.
So, there is a slightly chance to hijack a system booting via UEFI network and probably destroying the whole boot sector.
Could be a quite serious issue for enterprises, but it shouldn't be an issue at all for home/small business users.
Disabling UEFI network boot from the bios, probably helps. -
My old computer had - among all the usual BIOS settings - the ability to wake on network activity. Such a features requires something like this. The problems being that even if you don't want wake on network activity, the hardware is still there, and you can't turn it off.
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Of course, Minix as such is not a problem, it is a simple OS, what it shows me is that it has access to the network, which obviously can be a security and privacy hole.
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