On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 4:06 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <[email protected]> wrote:
> they made it look like, because everything else was libre, there was > really absolutely no harm done by having the ME firmware, you really > had nothing to be concerned about, you could buy one of their machines > and have a totally secure system. > I don't recall that to be honest. From what I understand they said the laptop would ship 100% libre from the beginning while they ended up shiping a traditional laptop with killswitches and the ability to run coreboot in the future, something that they achieved now. And they have a decent number of articles about their work on disabling the intel ME. > we know this to be absolute horseshit in an extremely significant way > libreboot.org/faq/#intelme > > now, it *just so happens* that someone recently discovered that the > NSA has clearly had their fingers into intel processors... because > they requested a DISABLE function of the ME back-door co-processor. > > without such a disable function there would be absolutely no way that > the NSA could authorise Intel processors for use either on their own > premises or for any government usage.... because the exact same > feature they demanded could be used to spy ON THEM. > > fucking ironic. > > now. > > is ANY of this mentioned on purism's main sales web page? I don't think it is and that switch was only a very recent discovery. It's ironic, the moment intel moved the AMT to x86 everyone got into breaking it. And there is a scheduled talk on how to run unsigned code on any intel ME system for a conference in the next couple weeks. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
