Purism switches off dispised Intel management engine

Stefan Mileschin · 31st October 2017, 05:19

A market for laptops protected from potential spying

San Francisco outfit Purism announced is offering a range of notebooks with the dispised Intel Management Engine disabled.

For those who came in late, the Intel Management Engine is a seperate CPU which is part of the main chip. It is widely hated because it relies on signed and secret Intel code, isn't easily alterable, isn't fully documented, and has been found to be vulnerable to exploitation. It can also run when the computer is switched off. This makes it a potentially hackable computer in your computer that you cannot totally control, nor opt-out of, but it can totally control your system.

http://fudzilla.com/news/processors/...agement-engine

31st October 2017, 05:19	#1
Stefan Mileschin [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania Posts: 148,964	Purism switches off dispised Intel management engine A market for laptops protected from potential spying San Francisco outfit Purism announced is offering a range of notebooks with the dispised Intel Management Engine disabled. For those who came in late, the Intel Management Engine is a seperate CPU which is part of the main chip. It is widely hated because it relies on signed and secret Intel code, isn't easily alterable, isn't fully documented, and has been found to be vulnerable to exploitation. It can also run when the computer is switched off. This makes it a potentially hackable computer in your computer that you cannot totally control, nor opt-out of, but it can totally control your system. http://fudzilla.com/news/processors/...agement-engine

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