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So the next question would be whether it's possible to remotely reconfigure the "non-vPro" machine to activate the features, in which case it could be considere
by khedoros1 10y ago
So the next question would be whether it's possible to remotely reconfigure the "non-vPro" machine to activate the features, in which case it could be considered a direct equivalent.
- nickpsecurity 10y agoAnd that's what we don't and can't know the answer to since it's a black box. Hence, that circuitry can't ever be present on a machine if one is worried about potential compromises or subversions of it.
- Bartweiss 10y agoDerefr's answer in this thread suggests that you can insulate against this regardless of how the vPro activation works; not all motherboards support the parallel packet stream, so you can get a vPro incompatible motherboard and trust that even if there is a "wake and activate" command it won't be received.
- 1001101 10y agoExamine the binary for a run of the mill system sometime and check out the partition headers/manifest, see if you are convinced there are no networking functions in there. The processor in my laptop supports WoL (and I've tested that it works), but is not vPro (double-checked with Ark). I'm skeptical.