Free Rootkit with Every New Intel Machine

[Ivan Krstić]

Peter Gutmann wrote:
> [...] a register article saying Intel released its new platform Centrino Pro
> which includes Intel Active Management 2.5. An article with some more info is
> here:

It appears Active Management is a setting that can be disabled normally
from the BIOS, like with TPMs today:

http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/sb/cs-020837.htm

I couldn't find a conclusive statement one way or the other, but I
expect it'll also be turned off by default for consumer machines. That
still leaves a slew of open questions, but makes it less initially
alarming, I'd say.

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Ivan Krstić <krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu> | GPG: 0x147C722D

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