-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 To comment on Rick C. Hodgin's concern that AMD may have an equivalent of vPRO, it does. It is AMD DASH without the anti-theft. Most of the frightening aspects of vPRO is Intel's AMT which is in vPRO and acts independent of vPRO. I think Intel installs AMT in computers without vPRO. AMT and DASH have similar capabilities.
AMT has been hacked. Even without hacking AMT, a hacker can hack the local LAN to access AMT and DASH to gain complete remote control of the computer. Ben, you mentioned wireshark can sniff the out of band traffic. Wireshark or snort on the computer being remotely accessed would not detect the traffic. Wireshark and snort would have to be running on another computer who's AMT or DASH was not being remotely controlled. Rick Hodgin, thanks for recommending VIA processor. I have been researching the Samsung NC20 netbook which has a VIA Nano processor. However, VIA does not answer questions. Hence, I posted on their forum. Samsung NC20 was discontinued and I cannot find used ones online. Tim Schmidt wrote: "You're misinformed, or lying. Please stop." regarding my post: "Dell automatically updates the BIOS of older Dell notebooks that didn't have Computrace preinstalled to now have Computrace." A geek who own's an old Dell laptop complained about this. Dell and Lenova perform automatic updates of drivers including BIOS. "Both Dell and Lenovo supply an auto-update program to update drivers and, in Lenovo's case, the various helpful utility programs that come with the system. ... My laptop is always up-to-date, and the update program has never failed, performing bios flashes, software upgrades, and even installing some new features. http://chrisnf.blogspot.com/2008/03/dell-vs-lenovo-automatic- update.html Thread by a Dell owner who's Computrace was activated before he purchased it and it was sending data. http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/241587-49-computrace-absolute- software Computrace has been hacked. Dell also preinstalls vPRO. I will ask my geek whether the automatic BIOS update contained Computrace and vPRO. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Charset: UTF8 Note: This signature can be verified at https://www.hushtools.com/verify Version: Hush 3.0 wsBcBAEBAgAGBQJP7MT8AAoJEMry4TZLOfxm8iUH/0TGE18jRLdHBJ3xBK9M6SmtCKNp ubbV6XLYLZphH78Kl1KAWrDvgGJrZeeeTPMy3+vzWFYDauzAUOb1Z70xl4/Y/vEu5ovS l1Ca0qyp6z7dEkYEe+4QCS/7dlzaNo7u3Ad4jSTCOq2ChTch2+RVeAQKPSjaB0DPWRfU b9e3JY634+XmD6oIuzSz66uelSqjiyO3MBdGWdMsrnxAbeKZnN4zzc409Zh6+pKBvdv6 hHSm8upifKovqjA9PoHNh/ZqIIZWArDUr8R7rCXBwIOxiue+jOZ8TiQolUf04Ae7xJjD X4t6at9WEdGweoxPrqUjiMBZcvjpTzELgC1c/9hnG30= =QCZm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
