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Joanna Rutkowska's blog points to recent paper on a survey of the various problems and attacks presented against the x86 platform over the last 10 years. The paper does not present new exploits but does cover: the BIOS (UEFI) and booting; peripherals; the Intel Management Engine; and several other aspects of x86 insecurity. Some of the problems appear insurmountable as described.
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If bankers can count, how come they have eight windows and only four tellers?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 30 2015, @03:26PM
IME is THE security flaw of the decade.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Friday October 30 2015, @04:27PM
> security flaw
*backdoor with plausible deniability.
I can't believe somebody can design that stuff for the sake of end user's security.
Want secure boot? formally verify the simplest bootloader you can think of, and make it redscreen with the hash of the payload whenever it detects it's changed, requesting the user to agree. Coreboot could pull this off, why can't INTEL? BTW, intel: nomen omen.
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