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In case you missed it : the Intel Management Engine runs (a modified version of) MINIX, the kinda forgotten OS by Andrew Tannenbaum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MINIX, cf http://blog.ptsecurity.com/2017/04/intel-me-way-of-static-analysis.html. That's kinda fun cause Minix fell off the radar after Linux became popular, and so it's pretty weird to see it running on the majority of new desktop/laptop computers when "Linux on the Desktop" is still far away :p
@wxcafe to be fair, this is, like, minix under the desktop, but yeah....
@gdkar love that wikipedia added "Intel Management Engine" to the "platforms" section on the Minix page tho :p
@gdkar well, it's running on the backdoor on the CPU :p