Many people have complained about the new Intel 945 Chipsets mandating DRM in the CPU on-die. Besides being an obvious waste of die space, this is decidedly a pile of crap. Nevertheless, there is something much more worrying in the new chipset.
To quote TFA: Additionally, AMT also features what Intel calls "IDE redirection" which will allow administrators to remotely enable, disable or format or configure individual drives and reload operating systems and software from remote locations, again independent of operating systems. Both AMT and IDE control are enabled by a new network interface controller.
Yes, you read that properly. It allows full hard drive access over the internet at a level lower than the OS One only needs to consider the possiblities. Nothing is uncrackable. Once this is cracked, then it will pose the biggest fucking security nightmare since ActiveX. Basically, anyone can access the hard drives, format them, lock them, etc, regardless of platform. WTF? Why don't they just attach a small thermite charge to each of the drives, and connect that to the WAN for "Remote Detonation". It'd probably have the same effect, except it'd be considerably cheaper.
Security through obscurity does not work, and it will never work. The problem with it, is there is nothing that cannot be reverse-engineered. If you know diasm properly, everything is open source. Similarly, it is only a matter of time before all encryption and forms of security are broken, and then any script kiddie from here to Vladivostok can install as many viruses as he pleases, without the OS ever being touched.
Thanks, Intel, for making me feel so much safer.
To quote TFA: Additionally, AMT also features what Intel calls "IDE redirection" which will allow administrators to remotely enable, disable or format or configure individual drives and reload operating systems and software from remote locations, again independent of operating systems. Both AMT and IDE control are enabled by a new network interface controller.
Yes, you read that properly. It allows full hard drive access over the internet at a level lower than the OS One only needs to consider the possiblities. Nothing is uncrackable. Once this is cracked, then it will pose the biggest fucking security nightmare since ActiveX. Basically, anyone can access the hard drives, format them, lock them, etc, regardless of platform. WTF? Why don't they just attach a small thermite charge to each of the drives, and connect that to the WAN for "Remote Detonation". It'd probably have the same effect, except it'd be considerably cheaper.
Security through obscurity does not work, and it will never work. The problem with it, is there is nothing that cannot be reverse-engineered. If you know diasm properly, everything is open source. Similarly, it is only a matter of time before all encryption and forms of security are broken, and then any script kiddie from here to Vladivostok can install as many viruses as he pleases, without the OS ever being touched.
Thanks, Intel, for making me feel so much safer.
