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> While reading a little about the "Intel Management Engine" this post
> came to mind. One issue of interest might be how the Intel ME (and other
> brand) silent systems can send network traffic "out of band," even while
> the main system is turned off but sideband power still on.
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Well, let us know if you find out. I wanted to jail a system and see if it
actually tries to "phone home". Alternatively, it may be listening for specific
packets to arrive. I had a brief discussion with somebody (local to Mpls)
who is part of the Libre BIOS movement about this. I hypothesized that the
ICMP protocol (used for ping) is used to activate the IME of a given machine.
Hard to actually detect this happening unless one is listening to open IP
traffic ("man in the middle" style) and collecting ICMP packets for analysis.
I do not have the time to work on implimenting this now, but it can be done.
> Apparently, nobody, even Google, knows how to turn this off.
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This person, who reads this list, can direct you to flushing Libre BIOS to
your system. We do not know for sure, but you are getting a BIOS other than
what the system came with. I am uncertain of the details and how effective
this is.
(Will monitor this thread.)