content: It's a tiny CPU (minion core) that runs "below" your main CPU, the one that's running your OS.  It lives on your motherboard along with all the other companion chips.  Security researchers have recently shown how to hijack this backdoor chip (over wifi is possible), and use it to gain control over the "main" CPU.  With this level of backdoor, everything on the machine is compromised, you cannot have privacy on machines with PSP/ME enabled.  Basically all CPUs after 2008 have this shit on them.                     701f  div>               It's a tiny CPU (minion core) that runs "below" your main CPU, the one that's running your OS.  It lives on your motherboard along with all the other companion chips.  Security researchers have recently shown how to hijack this backdoor chip (over wifi is possible), and use it to gain control over the "main" CPU.  With this level of backdoor, everything on the machine is compromised, you cannot have privacy on machines with PSP/ME enabled.  Basically all CPUs after 2008 have this shit on them.   link   parent