How's it going guys I'm Thio Joe now you may remember way back in March of this year
I made a video called is your CPU spying on you it might sound a little bit
Sensationalist and it had to do with two different types of technologies first is the Intel management engine and also AMD's
Platform security processor and these are basically two chips that are on virtually every motherboard
along with Intel and AMD chipsets that you cannot remove, but have very
low-level access
To your operating system that you cannot disable and basically has complete control over your computer
And I was talking about the dangers of this especially if it were to get
Exploited by either a government or hackers and a lot of people said all that's just fear-mongering
You're paranoid. You're an idiot. It's not true and
Well, we recently found out I was right you see Intel recently announced that there was a critical
major vulnerability
discovered in the Intel management engine
Which you almost certainly have in your computer and it allows the execution of quote
Arbitrary code which basically means that if a hacker were to do this and use this exploit
They could literally execute whatever code
They want on your computer and by the way like I said before
This type of chip cannot be disabled
And it has low-level direct access to your RAM your peripherals all your hardware your Ethernet port and it can even be
Enabled when your computer is off and not only that but it, bypasses the operating system
Which means that no matter?
What kind of antivirus or security software you have running on your computer?
Whether it's Windows or Linux or whatever operating system?
You could still be vulnerable to this vulnerability so before we go any further
I am letting you know you can patch this you need to patch this Intel did release a tool
It's called the Intel - si - - zero zero eight six
Detection tool that's the code for the name of this exploit
And I'll put a link to where you get this and I'll put the link in the description as well
So I highly recommend you download that tool off of Intel's website run it on your computer and make
Sure that either if your computer is not vulnerable
Actually, my computer is a fifth-generation
Intel CPU the 59 60 X so
Actually not upgrading up my computer helped out, but if you have a sixth seventh or eighth or later generation
Processor then you probably do have this exploit on your computer
And you need to download the patch to fix it so in addition to the CPUs. I just mentioned
I'll just put a list of all the different ones that are vulnerable and as you can see
It's pretty much all of them the Intel management engine is put into pretty much
Every single intel chip, and if you're wondering well. What is the point of this if you didn't see my previous video
Why would they do such a thing it's basically to allow system?
administrators for big companies to be able to manage lots and lots of computers without
requiring employees to
update all their software themselves it basically allows a company to manage all their computers from one place which is a
Legitimate use, but the issue is that it's such a closed source
Blackbox chip that nobody knows anything about it because Intel keeps it a secret
so that means that really no one could audit the code and
Intel did actually audit the code themselves because so many people were worried about it and turns out the worries were founded
Because they did find this huge vulnerability and the thing is we don't even know if this
Security flaw was discovered by anyone else beforehand if I had to guess it
definitely was
Especially by if anyone it was the NSA or the government probably had their eye on this software for a long time and I would
Not be surprised if they knew about this for a long time the analogy
I made in a previous video was imagine everyone had the same exact safe in the whole world and
Everyone had them on their doorstep
How long do you think it would take before the government tried to figure out how to?
Open that same exact safe so really that was the same analogy here pretty much all Intel computers have this
Vulnerability now and if it was discovered
They were just shooting fish in a barrel and maybe the scariest thing is that?
Because the way the Intel management engine works
And it has direct access to the CPU and all the hardware it doesn't have to interact with the operating system at all
which means that if someone was messing around with your computer you would have no idea because
The windows would not be able to see this going on at all Linux would not be able to see it going on at all
because the management engine chip
Which is basically like a mini computer on your computer will be able to possibly read?
directly off of your hard drive or out of your RAM
Without having to go through Windows which potentially would have something with security to block it
It wouldn't have to worry about that at all plus when it comes to AMD you might have heard me mention before
Andy has pretty much the same thing called the platform security
Processor it's the same idea. It's a black box. Chip. You can't disable it
If you take it off the computer won't boot all that sort of stuff and AMD has said they have no plans at this time
To open-source it now there have been things
I've met seen mentioned called Libre boot which apparently is a
Project by people like hackers good hackers in this case who are trying to figure out ways to be able to boot your computer
without this type of
Backdoor processor going on but I don't know much about it to be honest so in the meantime the only thing you can do is
Patch that flaw you probably do have it if your computer was built in the past three or four years
So run that tool. It'll tell you as I said before luckily my computer did not have this flaw
Thankfully I for some reason did not grade my computer in a while
It's one benefit
but it will tell you and
Then you can download the patch
Yourself and fix it so I guess that's pretty much all there is to say about it. If you guys want to keep watching
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I'll see you next time have a good one