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Can I just use AMD chips to avoid this?

• anonbanker 10y ago
  AMD has it's own secret firmware. it was shown off a year or two ago at Chaos, and AMD only allowed the presentation to happen if they had a PR rep onstage.
  • daxorid 10y ago
    Indeed. And even ARM has TrustZone. Our governments own us. Just accept it.
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    • anonbanker 10y ago
      TrustZone doesn't really look like Management Engine at all. Are there some documents comparing the two? (Heavily invested in Rockchip/MediaTek chipsets. Less scared of chinese backdoors than FIVE EYES backdoors.)
      • ZenoArrow 10y ago
        You're right to question this, as TrustZone isn't equivalent to Intel ME. To explain further, here's a comment I made about this before... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11290069 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11290069
  • yuhong 10y ago
    It does not access the network though.
• spash 10y ago
  For the moment, you still can, in a certain way. I've just made another lengthier comment about it elsewhere in the thread [1], before noticing yours which sadly got buried at the very bottom. [1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11882626 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11882626
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