Ransomware Forces Two Chemical Companies to Order ‘Hundreds of New Computers’

Re:Ransomware Forces Two Chemical Companies to Order ‘Hundre... by amelius on Sunday March 24, 2019 @09:47AM (#19476306)

Not sure. Who knows what hides inside Intel ME.

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Re:Ransomware Forces Two Chemical Companies to Order ‘Hundre... by colejohnson66 on Sunday March 24, 2019 @09:48AM (#19476311)

If you’re worried about what’s in the Intel ME, then you wouldn’t buy another Intel or AMD

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Re:Ransomware Forces Two Chemical Companies to Order ‘Hundre... by Crosseye_Jack on Sunday March 24, 2019 @11:56AM (#19477001)

(at least on intel, I’ve no looked into it on AMD’s side) Intel ME can be neutered. On newer gen’s doing so can be as simple as setting of a single flag. On older systems you can rip so much of it out that all it can do is bring up the CPU.

I would say you can still be concerned by IntelME (as it has been shown to be exploitable) but still purchase Intel/AMD. I mean who else you going to purchase from if you want an affordable x86 system?

ARM is getting more mainstream (in the laptop/desktop/server world.) and we now have fairly decently powerfully desktop/laptop arm powered machines we could actually dev on but the ARM world is still filled with binary blobs needed to get the cpu started.

Power9 has a ton of open source but the CPU’s are not. RISC-V is promising but still pricey as hell atm.

Just saying, you can be worried about ME but in a place where you are stuck with it.

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