Intel ME: based on Minix?

~ hucktech

https://twitter.com/lordbaco/status/861216983488004098

“[…]In addition, when we looked inside the decompressed vfs module, we encountered the strings “FS: bogus child for forking” and “FS: forking on top of in-use child,” which clearly originate from Minix3 code. It would seem that ME 11 is based on the MINIX 3 OS developed by Andrew Tanenbaum :)[…]”

http://blog.ptsecurity.com/2017/04/intel-me-way-of-static-analysis.html

http://www.minix3.org/

 

Published by hucktech

2 thoughts on “Intel ME: based on Minix?”

  1. Pingback: Tanenbaum responds to Intel about Minix-based ME | Firmware Security

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