*sigh*, On 28.08.2018 22:00, Mike Banon wrote: > You are right, my choice of words has been far from ideal. I apologize > for that. However, to be confident that Intel ME is a backdoor > (personal opinion) - one does not have to be its' creator.
sorry I meant the creator of us (God) not the ME. I doubt the creator of the ME knows everybody's opinion either. Which is what I was talking about. A good practice is to quote and answer below that quote, this way you can easily check if what you write makes sense in the given context. > I think > there are enough documents describing its' functionality and enough > evidence gathered by the independent security researchers about the > suspicious activities of this hardware module. If it looks like a > duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a > duck? WTF again? what suspicious activities? I know, for many people the ME firmware contains unwanted features. But these features are documented. In your world, a device becomes backdoored because somebody didn't read the manual?!? > There are no technical differences between the 'backdoor', and > 'frontdoor'. Please read [1] and [2] very carefully, I hope even you will spot tech- nical differences. > Like a 'conspiracy theorist', 'frontdoor' is a term > coming from the american 3-letter-agencies. 'Frontdoor' is their term > for a 'backdoor' to which only they (currently) have an access. This > article summarizes it well: > https://www.justsecurity.org/16503/security-front-doors-vs-back-doors-distinction-difference/ > . 'Backdoor' term has a negative reputation, so they would like to > push this 'frontdoor' term forward. This is very infantile. You cannot just take somebody's words and give them a different meaning just because somebody else used them in a dif- ferent context. When I say frontdoor, I mean a door at a front where everyone can see it. A backdoor implies something hidden, the ME fea- tures were never hidden (AFAIK, a stupid OEM may prove me wrong, but I don't know any instance). You did it again, btw., stating something (definition of frontdoor) and making it look like the generally accepted definition. Nico [1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/back_door [2] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/front_door -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] https://mail.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
