• debanqued@beehaw.org
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    9 months ago

    I can’t watch videos but I will say that my biggest problem with the iME is not the security issue, but the anti-consumer aspect. Intel decided non-corporate consumers (who do not want or benefit from iME) can be disregarded marginalized. So disabling iME is insufficient and misses the problem.

    The answer is to boycott iME CPUs. I never bought an intel CPU after 2008. I write this comment from a 16 year old PC just fine. I have pulled some more recent hardware out of dumpsters, ensuring I do not support anti-consumer products.

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      9 months ago

      Damn, running such an old CPU must be a total pain. Its crazy that the damn NSA needed to force Intel, but if you can disable it that sounds kinda okay.