• interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
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    7 days ago

    That’s in the bios, it’s a pcie device that windows allows to inject root level code into your environement, you have to turn it off and hope nothing ever spoofs that pcie id because that’s a permanent hardware rootkit into your pc like EFI

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      6 days ago

      Can this “feature” be turned off on Windows?

      Edit: nvm, I read the article

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        4 days ago

        You can turn it off in the bios, but windows will still execute code with root privileges from devices with the right PCI and USB ID As far as I know, that one cannot be turned off. I assume it is also a police/intel backdoor for PCs with secure boot and encryption turned on.