me_cleaner and Synology DS1819+ (Intel Atom C3538) NAS

corna / me_cleaner

Tool for partial deblobbing of Intel ME/TXE firmware images

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me_cleaner and Synology DS1819+ (Intel Atom C3538) NAS #359

Open gmipf opened 3 years ago

gmipf commented 3 years ago

If I have understood correctly, the Intel Atom C3000 platform also should contains Intel ME. Did somebody ever tried to do the removal on one of those Synology embedded platforms? Or is it even physically possible on this NAS model? Here are photos of the mainboard: https://www.techpowerup.com/review/synology-ds1819plus/4.html

The flash type is NAND, I should be able to dump that type of memory. Or is the bios even on the NAND?

skochinsky commented 3 years ago

the BIOS is highly unlikely to be on NAND; it's probably in the Winbond SPI chip.

Stitch626 commented 3 years ago

Ye it is. Those devices have just a kinda regular UEFI like usual PCs. But I couldn find a dump of it. Create a dump and take a look at it with UEFItool. If it shows any kind of ME region, it MAY be possible.

jamesy0ung commented 2 years ago

This is the chip you want.

gmipf commented 2 years ago

Thanks but I already discarded the idea of buying a Synology.