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Re:Disabling Intel ME 11 via undocumented mode by trapperkeeper74 on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @03:32AM (#15122728)
ACPI is almost as horrible: complicated, opaque, untrusted code running on a VM instead of using declarative data tables.

Closed-source firmware and silicon must end, because it's impossible to authoritatively verify correctness or rule out malware implants inserted at some point along the way.

Re:Disabling Intel ME 11 via undocumented mode by unlmtd1 on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @04:20AM (#15122884)
Well said. It also makes computing much more expensive and slow to progress. But those fraudsters love their violence-backed monopoly. Image if a few vital manufacturing plants were destroyed, we would have silicone shortages. We have made ourselves fragile, backwards and weak.