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o0shad0o ago

The management engine's potential for backdooring is well known. AMD has a similar setup.

djsumdog ago

There are people who have attempted to disable and remove ME. It's pretty difficult .. lots of things that, if you chance, will just brick the motherboard. There are a lot of signature and checksum checks.

djsumdog ago

Here is the article I was thinking of:

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-ME-Cleaning

Edit: github link to actual project:

https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner

libertyordeath ago

If it is so well known...why didn't you provide evidence. Why didn't you try to stop it? If you knew and did nothing, you are part of the problem

o0shad0o ago

You're right. 'Scuse me while I go bomb an intel chip factory. 9_9

Go google "intel management engine security".

Also, a way has been found to disable the engine. Note that it may also deactivate any late version of Windows (many W7 installs included) and not let you reactivate them.

Wuttier ago

Would love to see some more inside info on that as well.