Intel desktop board BIOS update end-of-life • Hacker News Board

bantunes wrote: post #12

gjvnq wrote: post #3

Sounds like it is time to call on r/DataHoarders

They've already done it https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/d6dkoi/intel_r...

Interesting observation:

> Note that they are actively removing files, they removed near 200 between the time I scraped the links and the time I started the downloads... shits going fast.

Re: Intel desktop board BIOS update end-of-life

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Post by ComodoHacker » Mon, Nov 18, 2019, 12:00 PM UTC

randunel wrote: post #4

> It seems Intel wants to wipe out their entire desktop board support section from their website. If this is true, it's the perfect opportunity to create dodgy "DOWLOAD DRIVURZ NOW!!1" websites which host modified executables.

There are plenty of them already. They'll just get more traffic from conscious users, as there won't be an official source anymore. Little cost-saving for Intel, big harm for their users.

Re: Intel desktop board BIOS update end-of-life

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Post by _pmf_ » Mon, Nov 18, 2019, 12:01 PM UTC

pgl wrote: post #8

Why are they doing this?

My uneducated guess would be to make reverse engineering exploits from patches harder.

Re: Intel desktop board BIOS update end-of-life

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Post by jwildeboer » Mon, Nov 18, 2019, 12:05 PM UTC

"Intel to remove all BIOS updates for their Desktop boards" seems to be a more correct headline?

Re: Intel desktop board BIOS update end-of-life

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Post by dataflow » Mon, Nov 18, 2019, 12:07 PM UTC

Ouch:

> It appears to be even worse. They're also removing old graphics drivers (and maybe even something else )from their website too, and that is bound to happen even earlier, the October 11th.

Re: Intel desktop board BIOS update end-of-life

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Post by simias » Mon, Nov 18, 2019, 12:09 PM UTC

_pmf_ wrote: post #16

pgl wrote: post #8

Why are they doing this?

My uneducated guess would be to make reverse engineering exploits from patches harder.

That doesn't make a lot of sense to me since we're talking about EOL software that won't receive patches in the first place.

I can't think of any good reason to get rid of that besides maybe "we're revamping the website and can't be bothered to port that bit".

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Post by dallas_ » Mon, Nov 18, 2019, 12:10 PM UTC

zozbot234 wrote: post #6

bencollier49 wrote: post #2

I almost wonder if archive.org could get involved here, as these sorts of things (specifically including graphics drivers) will be a prerequisite for some forms of digital preservation and retrocomputing.

See https://www.archiveteam.org - they've done such things before, and they do post their work to the IA. And yes, this is something where they should be involved.

Apparently they've already been grabbed, they're just not in wayback yet