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Re:Disabling the Intel Management Engine by akerro on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @04:45AM (#15448222)
> It seems strange to me that the European Union is allowing this. The fact that a foreign company has a backdoor in every computer running in European countries is so concerning on so many levels. Defense ministers from European countries should wake up and outlaw this.

Can't find source for this, but a few months ago I read that US (NSA, CIA) and EU (BND) agencies get the same Intel CPU WITHOUT IME, even more NSA made it a requirement for Intel that IME must be completely removed.

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Re:Disabling the Intel Management Engine by KGIII on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @04:56AM (#15448276)
You may be thinking of the HAP switch. It's an undocumented setting for the High Assurance Program.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/researchers-say-intels-manageme...

I've not tested it, but it looks like you flip a bit and it all goes away. Well, slightly more complicated but that's the gist of it.

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