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Re:Intel patches new ME vulnerabilities by tinus_hn on Sunday July 22, 2018 @02:01PM (#17587938)
It’s difficult to see the reason for including this on by default other than some conspiracy involving government agencies and a lot of money.
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Re:Intel patches new ME vulnerabilities by majewsky on Monday July 23, 2018 @03:41AM (#17591140)
There was a submission on the weekend which posited that ME was made mandatory because of lobbying from the content industry to implement copy protection that the OS cannot tamper with (HDCP etc.).
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Re:Intel patches new ME vulnerabilities by deno on Monday July 23, 2018 @06:15AM (#17591709)
So are they paying Intel to do that? How much? Why would Intel agree to that? Otherwise seems like a convenient cover for the aforementioned conspiracy theory…
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Re:Intel patches new ME vulnerabilities by westmeal on Monday July 23, 2018 @12:27AM (#17590580)
I've been thinking on this a lot as well. Could go either way as far as I'm concerned.
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