Another amusing bug

[Steven Stern]

On 08/25/2013 12:20 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> The mei kernel module has been killing folks for a long time
> now, and they can't seem to fix it:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=917081
> 
> Meanwhile, I still can't find out what the heck the
> mei module is actually good for.
> 
> All the doc files and web pages are filled to the brim
> with words that are concatenated together into correctly
> formed sentences, yet somehow manage to convey no
> actual information :-).
> 
> Given that, I've had to develop my own theory:
> 
> The mei module is actually the primary back door
> for the NSA to access linux systems. Why else would
> they go to so much trouble to generate so much obfuscated
> non-documentation for it?
> 
> This theory seems to make far more sense than any of
> the web pages that talk about mei. (And "mei" and
> "nsa" are both 3 characters long - highly suspicious :-).
> 

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=mei+kernel+module&l=1


http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Intel+Management+Engine+

-- 
-- Steve