CHAPTER 3

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Building Blocks of the Security and Management Engine

Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.

— Steve Jobs

The kernel of Intel’s security and management engine provides useful tools to application developers. Wonderful applications can be created on the engine with these tools.

The engine is designed to execute applications—both natively built on the engine and dynamically loaded from the host operating system. It is not a general-purpose environment per se; however, it is designed to be a foundation ...

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