Comment by karlgkk

Comment by karlgkk 10 days ago

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there are a handful of vendors that will sell you an intel chip with the me disabled, as well as arm vendors that ship boards without an me-equivalent at all

the point of my post still stands

eimrine 10 days ago

Do I need to be the US Military for that?

Intel ME is not a feature for user, it is intended to control any modern CPU except the ones coming to US Army/Navy. It is needed to make Stuxnet-class attacks. The latest chip with possibiliy to have the ME provenly disabled is the 3rd gen.

  • karlgkk 9 days ago

    Purism sells a Comet Lake box with the ME disabled (or so they say).

    Many ARM vendors sell powerful arm computers without any ME-analog on board.

    > It is needed to make Stuxnet-class attacks.

    I have issues with the presence of the ME and I think we agree on a lot of things, but this statement is lunacy lol

    • eimrine 7 days ago

      So, there is no any fresh x86 processor without that shite. I have no devices with ARM so I have nothing to say about the latter.