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Re:The Intel ME subsystem can take over your machine, can't ... by rdtsc on Thursday June 16, 2016 @02:25AM (#11914381)
I think this is time for AMD or IBM's POWER8/9 to step in. If anything a little good PR vis-a-vis the "rootkit nightmare waiting to happen in your server" would be nice.
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Re:The Intel ME subsystem can take over your machine, can't ... by SXX on Thursday June 16, 2016 @03:04AM (#11914510)
Since 2013 AMD have it's own technology called "Platform Security Processor" (PSP) which is ARM TrustZone core running signed closed-source code. It's efficiently have all the same access ME have.

Of course any processor that have PSP support not going to work without PSP firmware.

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Re:The Intel ME subsystem can take over your machine, can't ... by edwintorok on Thursday June 16, 2016 @03:43AM (#11914631)
See "The World Beyond x86" presentation for a presentation of alternatives, focusing on POWER8:

https://raptorengineering.com/TALOS/op_twbx86.php

https://static.rpteng.com/TALOS/assets/the_world_beyond_x86....

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Re:The Intel ME subsystem can take over your machine, can't ... by rdtsc on Thursday June 16, 2016 @04:45AM (#11914821)
Thanks,that was a good presentation. Yap basically POWER for mid to high end and ARM for low to mid.

And it looks like AMD has its own equivalent of ME...

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Re:The Intel ME subsystem can take over your machine, can't ... by supbpeerr on Thursday June 16, 2016 @03:02AM (#11914500)
AMD have their counterpart, called Platform Security Processor (PSP)

see https://libreboot.org/faq/#amdpsp for more info.

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Re:The Intel ME subsystem can take over your machine, can't ... by harshreality on Thursday June 16, 2016 @03:14AM (#11914541)
If you don't need high-end single-thread performance, RISC-V will help.
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Re:The Intel ME subsystem can take over your machine, can't ... by akerro on Thursday June 16, 2016 @03:54AM (#11914663)
Unfortunately, AMD follows all bad and destroying trust practices that were developed in Intel.
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