Re: [Trisquel-users] The hijacking flaw that lurked in Intel chips is worse than anyone thought

[infinityfallen]

Even for proprietary software, this seems incredible. Correct if I'm wrong,  
but- has it taken 7 years for it to emerge that the authentication feature  
did absolutely nothing AT ALL (except for checking that two 32-bit hashes  
were the same length)? Even if I'm certain the i5 laptop on which this post  
is written doesn't have AMT or vPro, that kind of oversight (at best)  
suggests any trust I had in it was entirely misplaced...

Whoever quipped that the infamous "Intel Inside" stickers reminded them of  
the "Smoking Kills" ones was perfectly correct, and may very well find their  
simile reified soon.