Good to know. Such a statement also lends credence to the fact that Intel IS only using this technology in businesses, the locally connected LAN networks aiding by routing out-of-band packets to their machines so they can be "fixed" when the fail.
Best regards, Rick C. Hodgin --- On Thu, 6/28/12, Tim Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Tim Schmidt <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Without software collusion > To: "Ben Mendis" <[email protected]> > Cc: "Rick Hodgin" <[email protected]>, > [email protected], [email protected] > Date: Thursday, June 28, 2012, 4:04 PM > On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Ben > Mendis <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Indeed, vPro can only work if the adversary is on the > same network > > segment and send packets that the NIC can hear. We're > all professionals > > here, we know that security works in layers. If you > stick a $25 router > > in front of your box then there's no way for those vPro > control packets > > to reach your NIC, so there's no way for vPro to get > activated. > > Going further, every technology like vPro that I've taken > the time to > study has _explicitly_ made use of a non-routable protocol > for > communications as a security measure. Meaning they > don't work over > the internet _by design_, and only work on local networks. > > --tim > _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
