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Intel Management Engine (ME) explained | disabling the potential backdoor (www.youtube.com)

submitted 7 months ago by Pantherina@feddit.de to c/foss@beehaw.org

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[–] debanqued@beehaw.org 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I can’t watch videos but I will say that my biggest problem with the iME is not the security issue, but the anti-consumer aspect. Intel decided non-corporate consumers (who do not want or benefit from iME) can be disregarded marginalized. So disabling iME is insufficient and misses the problem.

The answer is to boycott iME CPUs. I never bought an intel CPU after 2008. I write this comment from a 16 year old PC just fine. I have pulled some more recent hardware out of dumpsters, ensuring I do not support anti-consumer products.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 0 points 6 months ago

Damn, running such an old CPU must be a total pain. Its crazy that the damn NSA needed to force Intel, but if you can disable it that sounds kinda okay.