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FSM 16th Nov - Free Software Show and Tell
by Ben M 12 Nov '17

12 Nov '17

Hi Software Freedom Lovers It's November! and that's the time of the year when we look back and think about the Free Software that has improved our lives and given us all so much joy thorough the year. So join us this Thursday at Electron Workshop for our "Free Software Show and Tell" where we'll go round the group and each talk for a few minutes about the Free and Open Source Software that has made a difference for us this year. It can be something you've just heard about and it sparked your interest or something you've come to rely upon day in and day out. At 6:30 we'll will kick it off with our regular Gnews segment to get our tongues flapping and then we'll get stuck into the show and tells. We'll end the evening with pizza at Electron Workshop for dinner (vegetarians catered for, celiacs/others ping me and we'll arrange something) I learned a few new tricks last year at the Show and Tell and it's always a fun night. Looking forward to seeing you all there! Event details Thursday 16th Nov, 6:30-8:00pm 31 Arden St, North Melbourne, Victoria, 3051 Map: http://osm.org/go/uG4HWyqEz?m=&node=2556615434 Travel tips by Electron Workshop: http://www.electronworkshop.com.au/map/

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Re: [free-software-melb] MINIX 3 in IME
by Michael Verrenkamp 08 Nov '17

08 Nov '17

This is finally starting to get a lot of attention in the technology field but these issue have yet to be exposed to the larger population. I fear that by the time the average person starts to pay attention is once it is being used for attacks in the wild. Then it will be too late. Seeing big companies trying to disable ME and the existence of a kill switch on the platform for big customers is somewhat of a smoking gun meaning even they do not trust it. Next few months are going to be interesting especially now that Black hat folks are figure out how to run arbitrary code on the thing. -Michael On 8/11/2017 11:00 PM, free-software-melb-request(a)lists.softwarefreedom.com.au wrote: > MINIX 3 in IME --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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MINIX based Intel Management Engine Firmware & UEFI are Closed Source & Insecure, NERF to the Rescue!
by Andrew McGlashan 08 Nov '17

08 Nov '17

Hi, Here is the Google guy talking about all of this, quite an interesting talk (slides and video available). https://www.cnx-software.com/2017/11/07/minix-based-intel-management-engine… Cheers A.

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MINIX 3 in IME
by Andrew McGlashan 08 Nov '17

08 Nov '17

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hi, Just thought I would share as IME is certainly considered a problem by many (including me) and the first article mentions purism, which we all know about. Also, Google wanting to remove IME from their machines. https://hexus.net/tech/news/software/111857-intel-management-engine-runs-mi… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MINIX_3 https://www.networkworld.com/article/3236064/servers/minix-the-most-popular… http://www.minix3.org/doc/intelman.html https://firmwaresecurity.com/2017/05/07/intel-me-based-on-minix/ http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/intel/ Kind Regards AndrewM -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF4EAREIAAYFAloCgiQACgkQqBZry7fv4vsKQQD6ApUyKt62EU8m6UIz8dFgLVnX JAJL0W0nQLw6iUGg6FgBAJYEH0jE6K8kpDvU8derATB8+q4mTc3IO1FMbq6ucy4G =GuEq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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