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For now it's just that, remote management authentication bypass. Whether the ability to power up your machine at night and install Windows Millenium Edition for the lulz qualifies as "real damage" is up to you I guess :)

Anyway, you can't do anything Intel's management software doesn't normally support because this would require gaining arbitrary code execution on the ME and it's not what this exploit is about.




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