Minix: Intel's hidden in-chip operating system (2017) (zdnet.com)

12 points by taubek 3y ago ↗ HN

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This is the single reason for many companies to move to arm or other cpu architectures.

You assume there isn't similar features on different architectures, or market pressure to implement these, if not already present

You do know that for example the ARM based Qualcomm baseband processor on your board doing your bluetooth/WiFi/LTE runs is own RTOS ???.

If you that worried about snooping then become an ARM licensee and spin your own cores.

A lot of ARM CPU run some sort of L4 microkernel family OS so ....

RunSet 3y ago ↗

Never enough spotlight on Intel Management Engine.

Disgusting that Intel built a backdoor into everyone's computer and then only sold the U.S. government hardware without it.

More disgusting still, the backdoor has backdoors:

LouDNL 3y ago ↗

Well thats unsettling

As Scott McNealy from Sun stated in 1999 - You have zero privacy anyway … Get over it!

leoh 3y ago ↗

This is talking about chips with AMT, which not all intel chips have. Do we know if there’s still something like minix running on non-AMT chips?