§ɦṛɛɗɗịɛ ßịⱺ𝔩ⱺɠịᵴŧ to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish • 1 year agoThe Star Labs StarBook is Qubes-Certified!www.qubes-os.orgexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up155arrow-down10
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minus-square@lemmy_user_838586@lemmy.mllinkfedilink0•1 year agoCan you explain a little bit? Which backdoors are you worried about with Qubes?
minus-squaretaanegllinkfedilink5•1 year agoHistorically speaking, IME has been a low hanging fruit of attack vectors and intel has arguably speaking had worse problems with security vulnerabilities on hardware and firmware levels than say AMD or ARM. A bit anecdotal, but there you are.
minus-squaretaanegllinkfedilink3•edit-21 year agoAMD and ARM also have their remote standards, but none as distrusted as IME. Also, remember that vulnerability where IME could be enabled through the internet by a malicious actor? That was fun…
Can you explain a little bit? Which backdoors are you worried about with Qubes?
Historically speaking, IME has been a low hanging fruit of attack vectors and intel has arguably speaking had worse problems with security vulnerabilities on hardware and firmware levels than say AMD or ARM. A bit anecdotal, but there you are.
Star Labs disable IME by default.
AMD and ARM also have their remote standards, but none as distrusted as IME.
Also, remember that vulnerability where IME could be enabled through the internet by a malicious actor? That was fun…
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