On Tue, 26 Sep 2017 15:46:34 +0100 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <[email protected]> wrote:
> --- > crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 > > > On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 2:28 PM, Bill Kontos <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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. > > yes. primarily it's by omission. > > > 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. > > their _requests to intel_ to disable the ME back-door co-processor... > specifically requested (or, well... if the NSA "asks" you can't > exactly say "No"... not if you want to stay in business...) that it be > added in the first place. > > which do you think intel will take seriously: the threats the NSA > made against them (along with the nice bribes).. or a company that > makes up 0.00001% of their global business sales? > > > I don't think it is and that switch was only a very recent > > discovery. > > yehyeh. > > > 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. > > at laaaast. that's extremely good news. maybe i can do an intel > eoma68 card some day after all. > > l. BTW: Sorry this is so late, I've been catching up on my mail. A scheduled talk held where? Can I get a copy? Thanks, David _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
