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Yeah, that's the kind of thing I've seen before, lots of circumstantial evidence that makes the claims sound plausible, but then the trail just seems to stop co
by warner25 4y ago
Yeah, that's the kind of thing I've seen before, lots of circumstantial evidence that makes the claims sound plausible, but then the trail just seems to stop cold.
- NoImmatureAdHom 4y agoI mean, it is the NSA. They're probably pretty good at what they do. I should hope so, tax dollars pay for it.
- boppo1 4y ago>trail just seems to stop cold. There's your evidence.
- djbusby 4y agoNo, that's the absence of evidence.
- NoImmatureAdHom 4y agoOnly when your priors are that absence of evidence (in the sense of the trail going cold) is normal. Your parent comment's point is that this is a conspicuous absence of evidence.
- salawat 4y agoAbscence of evidence isn't evidence of the abscence thereof. That it runs cold lodges it firmly in the "we are pointedly not going to talk about it" space, which for me is where the worry even starts. If my little gray hat wearing mind can come up with plausible ways to exploit something like that... A) I am not that smart And B) Someone in a position to pull something like that off has probably already implemented it.
- shrubble 4y ago'Who benefits?' Seems to be a relevant question. Intel has to have spent quite a bit of money to add any feature that you see; so why would they do that without a strong market case...?
- NoImmatureAdHom 4y agoYeah, nobody in this topic has copped to actually using the ME so far. I've never heard of anyone using it.
- AnssiH 4y agoMost do not use it "directly", but instead use features implemented by it. E.g. I've used Intel Platform Trust Technology (PTT) to implement system security features, and AFAIK that runs on ME.