Year of MINIX 3 on the Desktop

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Martin Vahi

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Nov 22, 2017, 5:00:31 PM11/22/17
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 A citation from

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/738649/81007748bf15c1e5/?utm_content=buffer12d73&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

(archival copy: https://archive.fo/YnfNC )

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Ring -3 is "the one that has people really worried".
It runs MINIX 3 and is where the ME runs.
It is the cause of the "year of MINIX 3 on the desktop",
he joked, since there are more systems with the
ME than any of Linux, macOS, or Windows.
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The context is the
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine
that the Joanna Rutkowska criticized already in year 2015:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcwngbUrZNg

I arrived to the MINIX3 ME related link through the following tweet:
https://twitter.com/thenewstack/status/933064159616471040


Horacio Montenegro

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Nov 23, 2017, 8:39:04 PM11/23/17
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I guess people involved with Minix development already know (and probably know for some time):

An Open Letter to Intel ( www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/intel/ )

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