Disabling the Intel Management Engine

Re:Disabling the Intel Management Engine by severine on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @07:29PM (#15446126)

Naive questions: How does that work?

If $comercial_seller buys $chip_vendor expensive management solution does then have "legal backdoor" access to any device it sells?

What's the "chain of command" for accessing the IMEs of this world?

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Re:Disabling the Intel Management Engine by closeparen on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @02:59AM (#15447769)

Configured in BIOS menus by smaller shops, or preconfigured from the factory for the specific machines that enterprise customers are buying in bulk. (Enterprise accounts with Dell, HP, etc. can also get their corporate image preloaded at the factory to avoid any onsite provisioning).

https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/remote-configurati...

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