[TUHS] Happy birthday, Ken Thompson!

Toby Thain toby at telegraphics.com.au
Tue Feb 6 08:52:39 AEST 2018


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



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