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Re:Disabling the Intel Management Engine by zaggynl on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @04:40PM (#15445144)
In short, the Intel Management Engine and AMD Platform Security Processor, which are on many motherboards, allow for remote power on and remote control of a PC if connected to Ethernet, are closed source and have known vulnerabilities.[1] This website has a more elaborate explanation: https://libreboot.org/faq.html#intel [1]: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-tec...
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Re:Disabling the Intel Management Engine by GlenTheMachine on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @05:04PM (#15445299)
...but this varies depending on motherboard? ie if I buy an Intel CPU, and (say) an ASRock motherboard, is this still a thing?
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Re:Disabling the Intel Management Engine by corna on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @05:21PM (#15445408)
Any Intel CPU has Intel ME, independently from the MB vendor
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