I had had a few beers and wanted to see how far he'd argue his nonsense :D

Literally avoiding the issue that you weren't vulnerable anyway until you installed some other software. Perhaps you should have blocked the Intel site with some sort of hosts file?

Yes, secure for decades by the virtue that the processor predates the features(2008ish).

Perhaps I wasn't clear. I mean internal port blocking at a switch level. Hardening windows will do nothing against the exploit proper. Blocking these ports at a hardware level is a mitagation until the firmware is patched.

If you blocked them internally, your LAN was never vulnerable so I'm not quite sure what your point was. This is mainly aimed at the (relatively) small set of servers that may have these features in hardware and enabled, not home users. All you've showed was that you managed to enable a software based version of the vulnerability and then disable it in software.

For the more complicated functions that it can perform. But see this.

Traffic on ports 16992-16995 are directly intercepted by Intel AMT within the chipset before being passed to the host operating system... once Intel AMT is in a configured and accessible state.

and

Intel AMT enables reliable power control of the platform, booting for a network based ISO image, integration Keyboard-Video-Mouse (KVM), and more.

So a remote exploit could just consist of power cycling to boot from a external boot image. Only OS requests are sent to the OS, everything else is supposed to be caught at the hardware level.

You've clearly got some hackneyed version of it as it runs without drivers on supporting hardware. Sounds like you've got some sort of winmodem-style version of this. Read the summary...

I think you miss the point. It runs at the most basic hardware level, if it's enabled and supported by your motherboard. Having to install extra software to enable it suggests your motherboard does not directly support it, so this test is meaningless. It does not require additional software to work....

It would either fix it or make it so broken that you could send it back :D

Flying pigs will never be commercially viable.

And that the actual paying customers of spotify are not being affected. This sounds like FUD. Perhaps we should all use itunes now?

Some states forgive the debt if you die as well. So some of these may be worthless - CT

Perhaps that's why they all called you. They saw you had a great credit rating. I'd take it as a compliment. :)

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Because it's not about the UK where people wear top hats, monocles and would look down on that sort of witlessness. .