From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: toby@telegraphics.com.au (Toby Thain) Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 17:52:39 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Ken Thompson! In-Reply-To: References: <184378368.23385.1517692373907.JavaMail.tomcat@india-live-be03> Message-ID: On 2018-02-05 5:47 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote: > On Mon, 5 Feb 2018, Andy Kosela wrote: > >> I am well aware of that, but ironically Intel did not even informed >> Andrew about it... No one in the MINIX community was aware of that. > > And AndrewT was reportedly pissed off when he found that the ME could > actually snoop on (and respond to) network traffic etc without the OS > even being aware of it; apparently the ME hooks into the NIC... > If he thought that was *important* surely he'd have mentioned it in his otherwise self-aggrandising blog post? --T