Intel Management Engine

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Intel Management Engine

Basic Information
Release Year	2008
Product Type	Surveillance, Security, Computers, Articles in Need of Additional Work
In Production	Yes
Official Website	https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/homepage.html

Intel Management Engine--also referred as Intel ME-- is an anonymous system integrated into Intel CPU’s since 2008 that’s always running either from the battery or power supply (regardless if powered off), containing it’s own operating system called MINUX, internet connection, and booting sequence that's refereed as (). All of these components allow Intel ME to do the following;

• Records Keystrokes & mouse movements
• Bypass encryption
• See what’s currently displayed on the screen
• Turn your machine on or off
• Access all data passed through CPU & RAM
• Bypass Firewalls
• Change Settings on any operating system and BIOS.
• Access the internet and do data exfiltration (Even if turned off via BIOS or Operating System)

Additionally, Intel ME also contains several measures to check if it's been tampered with. Several of these conclude being inaccessible to the machine BIOS or chosen Operating System, scanning the entire machine every 30 minutes to verify if signature is signed or else the entire machine shutdown, and making it exceptionally difficult to reverse engineer.

Intel claims Intel ME is however the full purpose of Intel ME is unknown.

Security

Intel ME follows security by obscurity, a concept that if people are unable to view the code, then it makes it more secure, however it's known to be ineffective and posing a huge security risks. Leaves many of these vulnerabilities unpatchable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9BBXBZ5Ifs showcase 1 (2007-09-20)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joeEBJeUfbk showcase 2 (both ysainthilaire

Date	Description	CVE
2009	Developed by Invisible Things Lab, it was discovered that a bug allowed it to access the machine memory.	CVE-2008-1234
2010	An individual by the name of Vassilios Vereris discovered an bypass that allow attackers to remotely enable Intel AMT.	Can't Find
2017	Discovered by Maksim Malyutin from Embedi, a bug in Intel AMT allows an hacker to gain admin privileges from a remote location. Reportedly, Intel new about this more than 5 years prior from the report SemiAccurate gave to intel, however it was dismissed for unknown reasons.	CVE-2017-5689.
2018	Researchers at F-Secure discovered an exploit regarding Intel AMT that allows an hacker with physical access to the machine to bypass an user, BIOS, Bitlocker, and TPM passwords in a matter of 30 seconds. This bug is more severe against corporate laptops.	no CVE number
2020	Several vulnerabilities were found in Intel AMT that allows hackers to add a root kit.	CVE 2020-0535

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On date, year, it was revealed that the National Security Agency secretly contacted Intel to provide a CPU without the Intel ME, stating it was for governmental usage".

intel advance management technology

This is a list of all consumer-protection incidents related to this product. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the Intel Management Engine category.

Example incident one (date)

Main article: link to the main CR Wiki article

Short summary of the incident (could be the same as the summary preceding the article).

Example incident two (date)

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Tools and Tips

While Intel ME is normally not possible to be disable (except in some cases),there has been tool’s and tips made to allow disabling part of its system.

• ME Cleaner Tool
• Using an CPU or Computer made before 2008.
• Buying Computers with Intel ME completely disabled like Purism and System76

See also

• Intel
• Intel CPUs stability issue

References

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr-9aCMUXzI

https://www.csoonline.com/article/562761/researchers-say-now-you-too-can-disable-intel-me-backdoor-thanks-to-the-nsa.html intel response to backdoor accusa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPC5f7EJN6U

https://leeneubecker.com/intels-secret-backdoor-can-now-be-turned-off/

https://hackaday.com/2017/12/11/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-intel-management-engine/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpXkJqTAY5Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ8k79yNH2A

turn all the above links into references, though as of writing this i do not have will power to continue.