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IME is strictly local, and is concerned with handling the hardware. AMT, built on top of IME is not, it has networking, but if you have AMT, you know very well,

IME is strictly local, and is concerned with handling the hardware. AMT, built on top of IME is not, it has networking, but if you have AMT, you know very well, because you paid extra for it. None of the above is at the same level as phoning home or ignoring the user's firewall.

josephg 6y ago
At least Apple’s certificate checks are (ostensibly) anonymised. Windows telemetry is explicitly designed to build a personalised profile about you for advertisers. There are a lot of options you can disable throughout windows’ control panel, but I’d be shocked if you can actually turn all of it off for good without registry tweaks.
- vetinari 6y ago
  That's why I addressed Intel IME, not Windows telemetry. I put Windows telemetry into same bag as the Apple calling mothership.
  - klelatti 6y ago
    Neither Apple or Microsoft are in the right on this - but given the multiple issues associated with it neither is IME.
  - valuearb 6y ago
    In the same bag?!? You are really jumping through hoops to try to make a platform designed to protect your privacy equivalent to one designed to sell it.
    - vetinari 6y ago
      Protect privacy? By disregarding the firewall that the user has set up?
      - valuearb 6y ago
        Just because a single feature was poorly implemented doesn’t disprove the platform goal is for privacy protection.
        vetinari 6y ago
        Was it fixed then? No? Maybe that feature was implemented correctly after all and the objectives are different than what the marketing says.