Disabling the Intel Management Engine

Re:Disabling the Intel Management Engine by chongli on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @05:34PM (#15445491)

I hear you! It's frustrating to me, too. Having said that, I think it's but one manifestation of a larger phenomenon. People, in general, believe in a just world. They implicitly trust the mechanisms of society and government. They either can't or don't want to take responsibility for every detail of their lives. They trust the police. They trust big companies like Apple, Facebook, and Google. They trust the government!

I honestly believe that a lot of people would be capable of taking responsibility for all of this themselves. I think they just don't want to. They have neither the time nor the energy to put constant pressure on all of these organizations. They have so much other stuff to worry about in their lives.

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Re:Disabling the Intel Management Engine by abraae on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @06:17PM (#15445785)

I think most people trust their government, large companies etc. to some degree, but much more so they trust others who are in "their tribe".

e.g. if I read a story on HN about some police brutality, posted by some familar, karma-rich HN user, I'd quite possibly give it more credence than a report from said police department denying it. Just because I'm in the HN tribe.

This effect is why posting deliberately inflammatory fake news on platforms like Facebook is so damn effective. The typical pattern is (a) establishing the author's tribe (e.g. gun-toting 50-something male living in a southern state) and then (b) launching the attack.

I really like to think that, as a rational person, my bullshit detectors would fire... but its an interesting thought experiment as to what I'd give credence to just because it was uttered by a respected HN poster.

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