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My favorite part is the huge disclaimer at the bottom: INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED “AS IS” IN CONNECTION WITH INTEL® PRODUCTS. YOUR USE OF THE INF

My favorite part is the huge disclaimer at the bottom: INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED “AS IS” IN CONNECTION WITH INTEL® PRODUCTS. YOUR USE OF THE INFORMATION IN THE DOCUMENT OR MATERIALS LINKED FROM THE DOCUMENT IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. INTEL RESERVES THE RIGHT TO CHANGE OR UPDATE THIS DOCUMENT AT ANY TIME. EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN INTEL’S TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE FOR SUCH PRODUCTS, INTEL ASSUMES NO LIABILITY WHATSOEVER, AND INTEL DISCLAIMS ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY, RELATING TO SALE AND/OR USE OF INTEL PRODUCTS INCLUDING LIABILITY OR WARRANTIES RELATING TO FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE Intel: "Hey everyone it's your BFFs at Intel. There's this uber critical bug in our enterprise hardware that will murder you right in the face and you should totally update your firmware right away or face certain doom even though we won't tell you exactly how it works or why it's so critical. Trust us, you totes need to do this asap but if it borks your servers ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. kthnxbye"

kogepathic 9y ago
> even though we won't tell you exactly how it works or why it's so critical This is their entire argument for the ME. Seriously, try to find deeply technical information on the ME. You can't. It's not public. The best you can find are some books about the ME, written by former Intel engineers, who are still shockingly vague about what it actually does. Most "technical" books on the ME just repeat the Intel marketing drivel with marginally more (although still completely useless) technical detail. [0] I've read some books on the ME because I wanted to understand better what it did. All I got was it has some magic sauce for content owners who want to DRM the heck out of their content, and it can emulate a TPM for OEMs who are too cheap to spring for a hardware TPM (although I've never actually seen this done). [0] http://www.apress.com/us/book/9781430265719 http://www.apress.com/us/book/9781430265719

kogepathic 9y ago

> even though we won't tell you exactly how it works or why it's so critical This is their entire argument for the ME. Seriously, try to find deeply technical information on the ME. You can't. It's not public. The best you can find are some books about the ME, written by former Intel engineers, who are still shockingly vague about what it actually does. Most "technical" books on the ME just repeat the Intel marketing drivel with marginally more (although still completely useless) technical detail. [0] I've read some books on the ME because I wanted to understand better what it did. All I got was it has some magic sauce for content owners who want to DRM the heck out of their content, and it can emulate a TPM for OEMs who are too cheap to spring for a hardware TPM (although I've never actually seen this done). [0] http://www.apress.com/us/book/9781430265719 http://www.apress.com/us/book/9781430265719