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I wonder if Apple is ok with this. They usually don't like someone's else software running on their machines, especially on such a low level. They will probably negotiate a kill switch for them too.
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If some other CPU architecture were the dominant PC platform, do you think it wouldn't grow such features too? It's not hard to imagine an alternate universe in which we all have RISC workstations with the equivalent of ME, and Intel/AMD are the minorities who have more "open" CPUs without, but only because they hadn't grown enough. The underlying reason why ME became popular is the same reason why proprietary walled…
> The underlying reason why ME became popular ... ... is also because it provides management features that are wanted by enterprise customers. If you're running hundreds of servers in a data center, the more management you can do remotely, without visiting the machine room and preferably automated as much as possible, the better. This is quite irrelevant and even undesirable for an individual's personal computer.
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Likely to do with the EURion constellation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation Another item of interest may be printer stenography, in which every piece of printed paper, seemingly from every printer, can be traced back to make, model and potentially even the unit used to print it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_steganography
I'm one of the most paranoid people you're ever likely to meet. (People more paranoid than I am won't communicate online.) Printer stenography is just beyond the limit I set for myself to try to disbelieve, and yet, here it is. (Meaning that I always assumed something like this was going on, because that's what I would do , but I try to disbelieve it so as to be able to act normal. I believe all phones are continuall…
This is why I support Power/MIPS/RISC development going forward. It's just a shame that we allowed intel and amd to both put in cpu backdoors at such an obvious level (I like x86 but it's not the cpu of the future unless it's open). I highly suspect some national security letter type shit is going on in the background, ala Promis and William A. Hamilton who has claimed on Bruce Schneiers blog they (intel agencies) we…
If some other CPU architecture were the dominant PC platform, do you think it wouldn't grow such features too? It's not hard to imagine an alternate universe in which we all have RISC workstations with the equivalent of ME, and Intel/AMD are the minorities who have more "open" CPUs without, but only because they hadn't grown enough. The underlying reason why ME became popular is the same reason why proprietary walled…
Are there any good open computers?
There's some hope around power9-based systems:
https://www.raptorcs.com/TALOSII/
For more modest demands on performance, and affordability , there's LEON and OpenSPARC.
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Intel ME is not an effective DRM scheme. You need to be exceptionally careful when you mention DRM, because if it becomes commonly believed that Intel ME could be used to implement DRM all of a sudden the DMCA comes into play. Research into Intel ME vulnerabilities becomes a federal crime.
It's only a federal crime in the US ... aren't these guys in the UK?
Nonetheless, our research team (Dmitry Sklyarov, Mark Ermolov, and Maxim Goryachy) Dmitry Sklyarov! There's a name I haven't seen in a while... good to see he's still actively doing this stuff. The immense complexity of the base firmware and hardware in a modern system is astonishing. XML, MINIX, and three(!) complete 486 cores in the PCH. Given this amazing feat of engineering, and the goals of the ME, it makes me w…
In my experience firmware is developed by an underclass who are happy to have any decent-paying job at all. Or maybe the people who work on the ME realize that it's far from the largest risk in the system.
This is why I support Power/MIPS/RISC development going forward. It's just a shame that we allowed intel and amd to both put in cpu backdoors at such an obvious level (I like x86 but it's not the cpu of the future unless it's open). I highly suspect some national security letter type shit is going on in the background, ala Promis and William A. Hamilton who has claimed on Bruce Schneiers blog they (intel agencies) we…
This is why I support Power/MIPS/RISC development going forward. It's just a shame that we allowed intel and amd to both put in cpu backdoors at such an obvious level (I like x86 but it's not the cpu of the future unless it's open). I highly suspect some national security letter type shit is going on in the background, ala Promis and William A. Hamilton who has claimed on Bruce Schneiers blog they (intel agencies) we…
This is why Russia makes their own chips in their own fabs for defense applications. [1] 1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCST