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Analysts working on the Intel ME can test if its active by testing line voltages around he mainboard. Someone did manage to hard disable it, and it could be pro
by zanny 9y ago
Analysts working on the Intel ME can test if its active by testing line voltages around he mainboard. Someone did manage to hard disable it, and it could be proven in how voltages dropped at various points on the motherboard. If all else fails it is still a physical piece of hardware.
- simias 9y agoThat's good, but then shouldn't we petition to have a way to physically disable these modules instead of begging for a source code that won't get us anywhere closer to a trusted computing environment? It's a lot easier to validate that something is not running than it is to validate that it's running correctly.
- zanny 9y agoDisabling the ME / PSP usually breaks booting. It would require stripped down open source PSP / ME firmware anyway to bypass it during boot.