Goodacre catalogues this and related scenarios in a 37-page risk assessment prepared for CISOs evaluating Intel vPro hardware connected to corporate networks. Its conclusion is blunt: connecting an untouched-ME device to corporate resources “exposes the organization to a class of compromise that defeats the host security stack in its entirety.”
I hear a lot of concern about backdoors in Chinese hardware but this is just dystopian.
I hear a lot of concern about backdoors in Chinese hardware but this is just dystopian.