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Intel Management Engine (ME) explained | disabling the potential backdoor (www.youtube.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I can’t watch videos but I will say that my biggest problem with the iME is not the security issue, but the anti-consumer aspect. Intel decided non-corporate consumers (who do not want or benefit from iME) can be disregarded marginalized. So disabling iME is insufficient and misses the problem.

The answer is to boycott iME CPUs. I never bought an intel CPU after 2008. I write this comment from a 16 year old PC just fine. I have pulled some more recent hardware out of dumpsters, ensuring I do not support anti-consumer products.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Damn, running such an old CPU must be a total pain. Its crazy that the damn NSA needed to force Intel, but if you can disable it that sounds kinda okay.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Isn't this just an ad for their custom laptops? There isn't really that much talk about Intel ME, which is a shame.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Their BIOS is foss

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Does that mean they can actually disable the IME?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

iME can be “disabled” if you go along with all the hand-waving. The nuts and bolts of it is that the ME /must/ execute when powering on the CPU, but then there is a moment in the boot sequence in which it can be disabled. For some people, that’s good enough.