me_cleaner
Python script able to modify an Intel ME firmware image with the final purpose of reducing its ability to interact with the system.
https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner
Intel ME
Intel ME is a co-processor integrated in all post-2006 Intel boards, which is the base hardware for many Intel features like Intel AMT, Intel Boot Guard, Intel PAVP and many others. To provide such features, it requires full access to the system, including memory (through DMA) and network access (transparent to the user).
Unlike many other firmware components, the Intel ME firmware can't be neither disabled nor reimplemented, as it is tightly integrated in the boot process and it is signed.
This poses an issue both to the free firmware implementations like coreboot, which are forced to rely on a proprietary, obscure and always-on blob, and to the privacy-aware users, who are reasonably worried about such firmware, running on the lowest privilege ring on x86.
What can be done
Before Nehalem (ME version 6, 2008/2009) the ME firmware could be removed completely from the flash chip by setting a couple of bits inside the flash descriptor, effectively disabling it.
Starting from Nehalem the Intel ME firmware can't be removed anymore: without a valid firmware the PC shuts off forcefully after 30 minutes, probably as an attempt to enforce the Intel Anti-Theft policies.
However, while Intel ME can't be turned off completely, it is still possible to modify its firmware up to a point where Intel ME is active only during the boot process, effectively disabling it during the normal operation, which is what me_cleaner tries to accomplish.
#intel #me #mecleaner
Python script able to modify an Intel ME firmware image with the final purpose of reducing its ability to interact with the system.
https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner
Intel ME
Intel ME is a co-processor integrated in all post-2006 Intel boards, which is the base hardware for many Intel features like Intel AMT, Intel Boot Guard, Intel PAVP and many others. To provide such features, it requires full access to the system, including memory (through DMA) and network access (transparent to the user).
Unlike many other firmware components, the Intel ME firmware can't be neither disabled nor reimplemented, as it is tightly integrated in the boot process and it is signed.
This poses an issue both to the free firmware implementations like coreboot, which are forced to rely on a proprietary, obscure and always-on blob, and to the privacy-aware users, who are reasonably worried about such firmware, running on the lowest privilege ring on x86.
What can be done
Before Nehalem (ME version 6, 2008/2009) the ME firmware could be removed completely from the flash chip by setting a couple of bits inside the flash descriptor, effectively disabling it.
Starting from Nehalem the Intel ME firmware can't be removed anymore: without a valid firmware the PC shuts off forcefully after 30 minutes, probably as an attempt to enforce the Intel Anti-Theft policies.
However, while Intel ME can't be turned off completely, it is still possible to modify its firmware up to a point where Intel ME is active only during the boot process, effectively disabling it during the normal operation, which is what me_cleaner tries to accomplish.
#intel #me #mecleaner
GitHub
GitHub - corna/me_cleaner: Tool for partial deblobbing of Intel ME/TXE firmware images
Tool for partial deblobbing of Intel ME/TXE firmware images - corna/me_cleaner
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This inclusive animated film explains the applications of the International Humanitarian Law (#IHL) to the Palestinian context with focus on the occupied Palestinian territory. The film also explains key international law violations committed against the Palestinian people.
#Palestine #Israël #Apartheid #BDS #IHL #Alhaq #ME
https://www.alhaq.org/
Al-Haq (Arabic: الحق) is an independent Palestinian human rights organization based in the city of Ramallah in the West Bank. Founded in 1979, Al-Haq monitors and documents human rights violations committed by parties to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, issuing reports on its findings and producing detailed legal studies. It is in special consultative status with ECOSOC since 2000.
This inclusive animated film explains the applications of the International Humanitarian Law (#IHL) to the Palestinian context with focus on the occupied Palestinian territory. The film also explains key international law violations committed against the Palestinian people.
#Palestine #Israël #Apartheid #BDS #IHL #Alhaq #ME
https://www.alhaq.org/
Al-Haq (Arabic: الحق) is an independent Palestinian human rights organization based in the city of Ramallah in the West Bank. Founded in 1979, Al-Haq monitors and documents human rights violations committed by parties to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, issuing reports on its findings and producing detailed legal studies. It is in special consultative status with ECOSOC since 2000.
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#EU #Conflict #War #ME
#EU #Conflict #War #ME
The Nakba: All you need to know explained in five maps and charts | Middle East Eye – https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-nakba-ethnic-cleansing-explained-five-maps-charts
The 1948 forced expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland has created the longest unresolved refugee crisis in modern history
Every year on 15 May Palestinians mark the Nakba, "catastrophe" in English, when around 750,000 Palestinians were forcibly expelled from their homes by Zionist militias to make way for the creation of Israel in 1948.
#Zionist #Apartheid #genocide #Palestine #Nakba #Israel #ME
#refugees
The 1948 forced expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland has created the longest unresolved refugee crisis in modern history
Every year on 15 May Palestinians mark the Nakba, "catastrophe" in English, when around 750,000 Palestinians were forcibly expelled from their homes by Zionist militias to make way for the creation of Israel in 1948.
#Zionist #Apartheid #genocide #Palestine #Nakba #Israel #ME
#refugees