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Very naively, I wonder what happens if you just call Intel and complain about this. Say you want a way to remove the ME completely. They won't help you, but I w
by captainmuon 10y ago
Very naively, I wonder what happens if you just call Intel and complain about this. Say you want a way to remove the ME completely. They won't help you, but I wonder how they will justify making it compulsory if pressed.
Now if I call them, I wouldn't reach anybody important. But surely there are a couple of people on HN who are lawyers, CEOs, with the government etc.? If you have an imposing job and a few minutes to spare, I'd like to see what Intel has to say about this.
- confounded 10y agohttps://puri.sm/posts/petition-for-intel-to-release-an-me-less-cpu-design/ https://puri.sm/posts/petition-for-intel-to-release-an-me-le...
- techdragon 10y agoAnother lame petition won't get the same kind of results as a well connected question. The PR department lives to shield a company from such negative external noise, a well connected question can surface inside the company and be heard by people with the capability to actually do things.
- foodstances 10y ago> allowing Purism to provide this petition to our Intel Partner Account Manager It's at least worth a shot to see what they have to say about it...
- nl 10y agoThere are plenty of reasons why this is useful. See slides 7 and 8 from http://www.slideshare.net/codeblue_jp/igor-skochinsky-enpub http://www.slideshare.net/codeblue_jp/igor-skochinsky-enpub If this functionality is a good trade-off is a different question.
- Dolores12 10y agoNon-enterprise customers need not any of those. Hence they should be allowed to turn ME off if they wish so. That ME thing actually mean i don't have full control of my computer anymore. Anybody can access my hardware even when its turned off. Scary sh*t.