(2015)
Yet, still as scary and relevant today.
More scary is how people in tech circles still call you paranoid when you call Intel ME/AMD PSP a backdoor.
>We are also always open for ideas but our focus is on firmware, BIOS, BUS or driver level attacks.
Anyone on WiFi AC or up are backdoored right now by NSA. All of them are compromised, no doubt in my mind. All the LTE. All the x86 hardware on the market. All of it.
If you aren't running fully free software, you're affected. And if you are a rare case running fully free software, you're an easy target for interdictions, since there's so few of you.
How does "running fully free software" helps alleviate "compromised x86"?
If you're running fully free software, you're not running x86, since it can't boot without backdoored binary blobs.
What about Libreboot? Doesn't that allow booting x86 without binary blobs?
They still need some parts of blobs to configure/initialize the system and that “some” now means full MINIX kernel along its userland
You might be thinking of me_cleaner[1], which removes most but not all of the ME blobs. This is unrelated to Libreboot though, it works on newer systems and is not needed when using Libreboot because the latter gets rid of the (very early versions of) the ME completely.