> adding the possibility to turn it off should suffice. How could Intel/AMD reasonably communicate this to customers and have it taken at face value? "Here's

> adding the possibility to turn it off should suffice. How could Intel/AMD reasonably communicate this to customers and have it taken at face value? "Here's a flag to disable this black box we ship in every CPU. The product design and source code are proprietary, so please take our word for it that this flag disables everything." There was a blackhat talk on embedding malware in SMM and triggering it with a magic number written to a register to escalate the process privileges. [0] So there will always be suspicion of special triggers to re-enable the black box that you turned "off" I think there is a very slim chance that Intel and AMD can regain credibility when it concerns the IME/PSP. Especially after it emerged Intel created a special ME disabled mode intended for US agency customers. [1] [0] https://youtu.be/lR0nh-TdpVg https://youtu.be/lR0nh-TdpVg [1] https://m.hardocp.com/news/2017/08/30/how_to_disable_intel_me_courtesy_nsa/ https://m.hardocp.com/news/2017/08/30/how_to_disable_intel_m...