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Michael Kuron
Personal blog · blog.michael.kuron-germany.deprogrammingsystems
Michael Kuron's personal blog at blog.michael.kuron-germany.de covers programming and systems. Since 2014, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-19, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog's 2011 post on using Intel AMT for remote management as background on out-of-band access, in threads about KVM over IP and NSA hardware attacks.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /2011/10/using-intel-amts-vnc-server/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-01-15
What Hacker News says?
It works, however you need a non-free special client called VNC Viewer Plus [1]. Afaik it is Windows only. You can enable regular VNC protocol capabilities for AMT[2], but then you can't use the interesting stuff anymore. [1] https://www.realvnc.com/en/products/viewerplus/ [2] https://blog.michael.kuron-germany.de/2011/10/using-intel-am... //edit: link [2] added.
Comment linking /2011/10/using-intel-amts-vnc-server/
on “Show HN: TinyPilot – Build a KVM over IP using a Raspberry Pi”Submitted Emulating PPC64 Inside Docker as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis has some more info, no idea how much it applies to current tech. http://blog.michael.kuron-germany.de/2011/10/using-intel-amt... EDIT: and some more current stats http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2012/04/23/intelr-vpro...
Comment linking /2011/10/using-intel-amts-vnc-server/
on “N.S.A. Devises Radio Pathway Into Computers”Have you considered the idea of just running standard VNC? I mean using some difficult solution one last time to get remote access, then configuring eg TigerVNC on the remote machine. There are many different dynamic DNS services you can use to keep a hostname pointing at the right place; freedns.afraid.org is excellent. There are a metric truckload of free and paid VNC apps for literally every mobile OS too. If you…
Comment linking /2011/10/using-intel-amts-vnc-server/
on “Ask HN: Best solution for family remote support”