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Lenovo Superfish was incompetently malicious. The ME allows Intel to competently pull off far more nefarious activities than blindly forwarding all browsing dat
by pritambaral 8y ago
Lenovo Superfish was incompetently malicious. The ME allows Intel to competently pull off far more nefarious activities than blindly forwarding all browsing data and easily evade detection.
Superfish was removable. The ME is far from it.
There are alternatives to using Lenovo software or hardware, thus Superfish is even completely avoidable. The ME and its AMD equivalent are not.
Both are worrisome. Backdoor-in-hardware is far more worrisome.
- Kliment 8y agoME is removable. Coreboot devs will often remove it for you if you meet them in real life and ask nicely. I've since got a setup for doing that myself so if you are ever around me in real life ask nicely and I'll remove it from your machine
- pritambaral 8y ago> ME is removable. With proper hardware tooling and care, perhaps. (Side question: even for latest gen chips?) For the vast majority of people, ME is not removable. For the AMD users, AMD's ME equivalent is not removable.
- Kliment 8y agoYes, even for latest gen chips. See http://blog.ptsecurity.com/2017/08/disabling-intel-me.html http://blog.ptsecurity.com/2017/08/disabling-intel-me.html for details. me_cleaner supports this method.