After the dust has settled can we please have a serious discussion how intransparency from actors like @intel is harming security? I mean... they ship microcode updates without changelogs. @tehjh + @anders_fogh had to guess how their processors work. They don't comment on ME.
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How about your WiFi chip being hijacked and used for nefarious things? Entirely possible with your OS knowing about it. Just saying
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if your main system is properly isolated (by iommu or by using usb wifi) this doesn't matter a lot. the attacker can mess with wifi traffic, but there's tls to prevent that and you can't trust the network anyway.
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Except that it now is YOUR machine doing those things.
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Yes but it's largely indistinguishable from a separate malicious box that just spoofed your MAC address, which is always a possibility.
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