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Intel's super-secret Management Engine firmware now glimpsed, fingered via USB

whitepines
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Nope. It's in every single chip and increasingly vital to the boot process (well, technically, even now *no* AMD chips will boot without it, it's just that now DRAM setup and other functions are also being moved into the PSP. Can you say "exploits everywhere"?)

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