[sf-lug] Meeting notes for Sunday, 3 September 2017

[Rick Moen]

I wrote:

> Intel Management Engine (present in all Intel chipsets with BMC =
> baseboard management controller circuitry) since 2008 is present in
> order to allow enterprise customers to provision any computer remotely,
> and perform reboots, BIOS edits, and nearly any other change, overriding
> the system itself and manipulating it from behind the scenes, invisibly
> to the system's software. 

Er, and in machines lacking BMCs, too.  To my knowledge, aall post-2008 
Intel x86 machines have the ME feature, hence suffer the problem.