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Intel ME is part of the initialization of the CPU during boot. You are running Intel ME wether or not you think its usefull. Removing Intel ME, or disabling it,
by Foxboron 9y ago
Intel ME is part of the initialization of the CPU during boot. You are running Intel ME wether or not you think its usefull. Removing Intel ME, or disabling it, results in your computer stopping after 30 sec. Much of the work to remove Intel ME is more about neutralizing the firmware.
Pretty great talk from 32C3 about Intel ME
https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7352-towards_reasonably_trustworthy_x86_laptops https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7352-towards_reasonably_trustwor...
- mrweasel 9y agoThat wasn't really my point. Arguably it should be a feature you specifically enable, or better yet only present if you buy that option. If you ignore all that, then Intel ME actually seems rather useful, for a subset of users, specifically organisations with large numbers of machines deployed. Still I'm not sure that even the target audience of ME is actually using it, so it seems like a huge waste of time and money from Intel perspective.
- criddell 9y agoI believe the person you replied to was talking about the BUP module. This is useful to every user. It's probably cheaper for Intel to ship the same ME on every motherboard than to customize it endlessly.