TB is a tiny and inexpensive chip that could be added to pcengines. Supermicro is too expensive, because of the unnecessary ipmi and video. We need 3x m.2 slots, but they only have one. We like booting from the SD, but they have none. Pcengines is a jewel for us. We depend on it.
Sent from ProtonMail Mobile On Sat, Dec 2, 2017 at 22:09, Joel Wirāmu Pauling <j...@aenertia.net> wrote: > You can get barebone c3xxx series atom boards from Supermicro. My personal > interest is the variants that come with dual SFP+ interfaces. It's a pity > that there is no thunderbolt3 on them by default (free 10/40gbit networking). > On 3 December 2017 at 08:54, Rupert Gallagher wrote: > Do you have any > reference on Intel M.E. being present on Atom C3308? > > Sent from ProtonMail > Mobile > > On Sat, Dec 2, 2017 at 20:14, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > >> On Sat, > 02 Dec 2017 03:11:23 -0500 > IME (vPro) is included in Xeon and Core chips. > Atom is clear of it. > Just checked. Perhaps the older ones but I doubt that. > The latest Atom Apollo Lake E3s even PROVIDE "Access to user memory". Which I > believe means the entire RAM and if so is quite ridiculous!! I am sure it > will change however the current working exploits require access to a USB > port, though the OS has access and could turn malware into HW resident > malware. OpenBSD is as good a protection as you will get there though and > probably even better for future exploits. I am still unclear as to whether a > properly setup Trusted Execution Engine can protect the system. I guess from > persistent firmware invasion but not protect kernel memory access or prevent > an attacker gaining knowledge for gadgets (if can get to a Debug USB from > userland) or worse. Reminds me of IPv6 to some degree but worse. Take a small > problem and expand it until you have potential for undermining everything. > The most ironic is Intels recent adverts for not trusting software but HW > instead. Can be true in an application specific fashion but even then it has > to be done right. Unfortunately the lastest hardware is much cheaper so it > isn't necessarily as simple as just using some older stuff that may just be > less understood, unless you go further into obsolescence territory. AMD is > *maybe* an option but they are moving higher end not cheaper by the looks of > it. @gmail.com> @protonmail.com>
