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Devil's advocate: if large customers care, AMD can easily give them a "special" microcode image with it disabled. Intel does the same thing with the "High-Assu
by paulmd 9y ago
Devil's advocate: if large customers care, AMD can easily give them a "special" microcode image with it disabled. Intel does the same thing with the "High-Assurance Platform" for the intelligence community, which is effectively a ME killswitch.
However, these fixes are generally not offered to the public even when they already exist (again, see: Intel HAP).
The rules of the game are different when you're one of the Super 7 instead of just some random pleb. And increasingly those guys are no longer interested in leaving this threat vector open, which says something.
- bogomipz 9y ago>" Intel does the same thing with the "High-Assurance Platform" for the intelligence community, which is effectively a ME killswitch." Do you have any links or documentation you could share regarding these exceptions? Thanks.
- GranPC 9y agoHere you go: http://blog.ptsecurity.com/2017/08/disabling-intel-me.html http://blog.ptsecurity.com/2017/08/disabling-intel-me.html
- PuffinBlue 9y agoTo see the Int community have a special mode to disable ME simply confirms that the ME is exploited, if any further proof was needed.
- gmantastic 9y agoThis article discusses Intel Management Engine and a company offering laptops with it disabled: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/21/purism_cleanses_laptops_of_intel_management_engine/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/21/purism_cleanses_lap...
- Chaebixi 9y ago>> Well, some of those privacy and security nerds happen to work for companies like Google and even have influence over those companies' hardware purchases. >> So now AMD has just lost a big chuck of potential Google business... > Devil's advocate: if large customers care, AMD can easily give them a "special" microcode image with it disabled... > However, these fixes are generally not offered to the public even when they already exist (again, see: Intel HAP)... Google could take the "don't be evil" motto one step further: they could require CPU vendor give them publicly available microcode that disables these "features." Basically, they could use their market clout to put the PC market in the right direction.