[GTALUG] Intel's dangerous Management Engine may violate Minix 3's license

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

Pretty much every x86 processor / chipset Intel has produced recently has 
a Management Engine.  That's a separate, invisible, 32-bit x86 processor 
used to implement a variety of features.  For example AMT.

These features are generally useless for Linux users since they are not 
disclosed in a way useful to open source.  On the other had, 
vulnerabilities have been discovered in the ME that suggest it is a 
security risk to us all.  Some think that the ME has been designed for 
Government Access.

Here's the latest disclosure of a latest weakness.  This isn't the first 
and won't be the last:
 <https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000025619/software.html>
Pretty much all firmware ("BIOS") needs to be update but I suspect many 
vendors will neglect to do this.  This blog has lots of interesting 
details (these guys found the bug(s)):
 <http://blog.ptsecurity.com/>

It turns out that the Management Engine is running Minix 3.  Minix 3 is 
released under a BSD-like license.  The license requires "advertising":

	“Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 
	notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in 
	the documentation and/or other materials provided with the 
	distribution.”

Intel is likely violating the license.
 <http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2017/12/02/supplying-legal-notices-free-software/>