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Author: Adam Borowski
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Purism Librem and disabling Intel ME: it can be done [ Re: TALOS 2 - The Libre Owner Controlled POWER9 Workstation/Server ]
On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 09:17:20PM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> If our hosts cannot be trusted not to phone home to folk wearing dark
> glasses, then would it not suffice to employ a simple embedded host with
> a small die, such as an ARM, e.g. Beaglebone Black, as a firewall?


It's not hard to trigger a backdoor using a higher level protocol, from
Javascript, etc.

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