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How Purism Avoids Intel’s Active Management Technology
- ChuckMcM 10y agoAnd avoids being able to use ECC memory. (side effect of processors that don't support vPro). Another niche that AMD could fill if they were thinking about it.
- dogma1138 10y agoAMD has their own version of AMT (which is actually even worse to some extent). Also the CPUs they are using do support vPro so I don't know what are they even talking about. vPro isn't restricted to AMT it includes VT, TXT and virtually every thing a modern CPU has to support.
- yuhong 10y agoAMD has their own version of AMT? (remember that I am talking about actual network access.)
- dogma1138 10y agoYes it's called DASH, it was broken from day one and the spec hasn't been updated for about 7 years but it's still there. https://www.amd.com/Documents/out-of-band-client-management-overview.pdf https://www.amd.com/Documents/out-of-band-client-management-... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=39XAMP73MiQ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=39XAMP73MiQ Had fun with some of the DMTF tools on a el cheapo AMD apu netbook/mini laptop because unlike Intel AMD doesn't even disables remote management to force corporate clients to pay extra.
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- AstralStorm 10y agoAnd this does not matter since ME backdoor is still operational.
- ddalex 10y agoAnd does not matter, because people who fear of being targeted by ME are not the people who are the marketing target of ME.