Actually there’s a more memorable link that describes the matter concisely:
https://amdflaws.com Pengcheng Xu i...@jsteward.moe > H30/03/14 10:15、taii...@gmx.comのメール: > > Here is a non-shortened link. > https://it.slashdot.org/story/18/03/13/1558221/researchers-find-critical-vulnerabilities-in-amds-ryzen-and-epyc-processors-but-they-gave-the-chipmaker-only-24-hours-before-making-the-findings-public > > All the more reason to avoid the ME/PSP garbage and instead buy the > equivalently priced, owner controlled and higher performance OpenPOWER arch > systems such as the libre firmware TALOS 2. > > Pretty much someone found a bug in AMD's version of ME which *how terrible* > in other words you can use this to defeat hollywoods AMD PSP DRM which is the > true reason of existence for ME/PSP, to prevent people from owning and > controlling their devices. > > I can't believe the new normal is not being able to really buy a mainstream > computer because you don't own it and everyone in the tech press and so > called experts says its a good thing, oh it is to "keep you safe from > hackers" and they pretend like it has always been this way as if it wasn't > just a recent change that for some reason all the major OEM's did at the > exact same time....I wonder why. > > "The corporate sector asked for this" - MYTH - They already had it, it is a > BMC/LOM chip and it was owner controlled. I doubt any company with IP worth > something wants a super insecure black box supervisor processor that they > don't control on every computer of theirs. > > > If you need secure remote management you can use OpenBMC which is present on > the TALOS 2 (IBM OpenBMC) and also the KCMA-D8 and KGPE-D16 pre-PSP x86 > boards (you can replace the crappy non-free ASUS firmware on the ASMB module > with the facebook version of OpenBMC which was recently ported to it via > crowdfunding) >
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