<story><title>Intel AMT Checker for Linux</title><url>https://github.com/mjg59/mei-amt-check</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jaimex2</author><text>God #$%@ing damn it, this is why we can&amp;#x27;t have nice things. You can do only so much to not get pwned software wise, now you need to be paranoid about the hardware too?!&lt;p&gt;Going through all Xeon servers is going to be fun tomorrow.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nom</author><text>Unfortunately, there are too few hardware developers and not enough hardware-awareness, thanks to the good abstraction nowadays. In the modern age, only few software devs cares about the underlying hardware, because it just works. The thing is, software _runs_ on hardware and any bug&amp;#x2F;backdoor etc in it undermines everything above.&lt;p&gt;Did you know that the baseband chip in your smartphone runs it&amp;#x27;s own linux? Or that every SIM card comes with java applications that can communicate with it? I guess not.&lt;p&gt;Considering how much hardware is required on a modern PC main board, it&amp;#x27;s really not that surprising that there are backdoors, bugs, or other mechanisms that can be exploited.</text></comment>
<story><title>Intel AMT Checker for Linux</title><url>https://github.com/mjg59/mei-amt-check</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jaimex2</author><text>God #$%@ing damn it, this is why we can&amp;#x27;t have nice things. You can do only so much to not get pwned software wise, now you need to be paranoid about the hardware too?!&lt;p&gt;Going through all Xeon servers is going to be fun tomorrow.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>criddell</author><text>If your servers have multiple network ports and you aren&amp;#x27;t using them all, don&amp;#x27;t use the first one. Apparently the ME interface is only exposed on the main network interface.</text></comment>