@marcan nodds in agreement #Apple doesn't need to have backdoors in Hardware when their entire #iCould is backdoored and can be weaponized to brick devices.

• OFC similar functionality can be achieved with #CompuTrace on #amd64-based #Laptops (i.e. #ThinkPads) and compared to that, #AMT + #ManagmentEngine is trivial to #exploit and should be considered real #backdoors (abeit "well meaning" in the sense of remote provisioning of entire fleets of devices, but still allowing to bypass the OS and offering DMA access to the CPU, so basically "#pwned")...

Either way, these are not inherent to the used #Silicon, but entirely #Firmware-based.

• AMT for example requires a "#Intel #vPro" configuration with Intel-made Ethernet NICs (i.e. i2xx & i3xx - Series) with a Q- or C-series Chipset & supporting #UEFI, so most Systems with cheap #Realtek-NICs aren't exploitable straight-away, and even then it requires certain settings to work, so not an easy "#Pwn2Own" style exploitability...

How Common Might Backdoors Be In Hardware? Asus Story + Backdoors Found In Routers + Legitimized backdoors like Computrace, AMT

Video + Public Post

#Backdoors #Infosec #Computrace #cybersecurity #routers #firmware #privacy
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/politictech/how-common-is-backdoored-hardware-history-recent-cases