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To be fair, many of us noticed the giant camera in the corner a long time ago. ME has been a holy grail in the security researcher community for a long time, frequently the subject of presentations at conventions. And we have been pestering Intel about this since its inception. But the fact is that it doesn't matter how much outrage you or I may have. It will take enterprise-level shifts away from Intel products to get them to offer chips without ME.

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I would rather hope that it would take a brave judge or the EU to forbid this spy-device.

Commercially there's no alternative. Enterprises even use Microsoft over Linux/BSD. Why would they get rid of Intel? For Anti-US spying a firewall should be enough.

What about AMD? Which chips does the sec-comm recommend for not getting pwnd

AMD and ARM have 'TrustZone', which is not the same, but if you don't trust it maybe you're in trouble.

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