On 2017-05-10 04:05, Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 7:16 PM, Carlos E. R. <> wrote:
On 2017-05-09 21:03, John Andersen wrote:
On 05/09/2017 08:34 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
What types of machines are affected?
Hundreds. follow the links in thread or just read ARS. The story is all over the press.
I read the link in the first post (there were no other links posted when I asked, I still have other posts to read). I don't know what ARS is.
I see it is something Intel, but what?
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Active_Management_Technology
"AMT is designed into a secondary (service) processor located on the motherboard"
That link is instructive. I found it some minutes ago and was reading it :-)
Intel mother boards? The CPU? The
network card? What can act on its own without the firewall intervention and respond to network packets on those ports, without the operating system intervention? It must be something with CPU independent from the main CPU..., or the OS would see it.
I don't understand.
Yes you do.
If an enterprise puts a server in a datacenter and they need remote console access they need a way to do it. Lots of hardware solutions for that. This is one of them.
I understand now, after reading the wikipedia article. Not everybody here has enterprise class hardware with that class of stuff, and uses it ;-) But apparently to make use of that "access port" you need specific software from Intel and others, and it is not cheap. I saw mention of even tablets having this thing, it may come included with some Intel processors (and AMD). Thus I don't see very clearly what kind of machines really have this thing. Or how to find out if a machine really has it or not. I'm not sure nmap does it (yes, I saw the example, I tried my machines, I'm not convinced). My entry firewall has those ports closed, I saw. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)