So, will Intel be patching both the vulnerabilities and the kludges people have found to remove ME? Thus making some customers safer while maintaining systemic risk for everyone?
"Asking for a friend"
"Asking for a friend"
edit: maximum downvotes for a legitimate question, thanks all
The same is true of all the devices directly integrated into your motherboard. Broadcom/Intel wireless chipset, Ethernet, audio, etc.
Customer. Or customers (plural)??
I ask, because I assume this amount of complexity wasn't created because it was cheap, or end-users were crying out for it. There may be other customers -- those with three-letter agency names, who would wish for code to run on the computer you possess (note, I did not say "own", so long as someone else has control).
It's getting too easy to be this paranoid. Besides, it was fun when I sounded crazy. Now it's alarming.
Now that doesn't mean that the TLAs haven't found and used a vulnerability but that's like everything in a computer.