On 09/04/2017 11:50 PM, [email protected] wrote:
On 09/04/2017 01:42 PM, Finsh wrote:
Wy not simply apply ME_cleaner? I doesnt remove all of the ME
functions, but as far as ive understood it will wipe out the official
Intel firmware, leaving only a stub of it to bring up the
(Sandybridge) CPU before shutting down the ME.
It is still active, if you actually shut it off or somehow removed the
chip physically the system would cease to function as ME is integral
to a variety of things so says intel (a slick way to stop people from
getting rid of it)
There is still a litany of mysterious opaque code, even after ME
cleaner - and that's the stuff that you can notice - it doesn't
include mask roms or undocumented EEPROM chips.
Post sandy/ivy bridge a lot less gets stripped out too, but if you're
going to get ivy/sandy laptop you might as well get a Lenovo G505S and
skip ME/PSP. (performance equal to sandy bridge)
With the KGPE-D16, KCMA-D8, Lenovo G505S and of course the extra high
performance TALOS 2 there is no reason at all to buy a system with
ME/PSP hardware rootkits - one ends up spending **less money for
higher performance by going with an owner controlled system***
ironically (to get TALOS 2's POWER9 performance you'd spend twice as
much with intel/amd)
I play modern games on my libre firmware KGPE-D16, I sacrifice
absolutely nothing to be free.
FFFfff typo - correction one spends more money by purchasing a non-owner
controlled system.
TALOS 2 with a board and CPU is $2100, whereas an intel system with
PCI-e 4.0 and 12+ threads would cost above 3K+
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