On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 02:10:56 -0500 "J.B. Nicholson" jbn@forestfield.org wrote:
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
now, it *just so happens* that someone recently discovered that the NSA has clearly had their fingers into intel processors... because they requested a DISABLE function of the ME back-door co-processor.
without such a disable function there would be absolutely no way that
the NSA could authorise Intel processors for use either on their own premises or for any government usage.... because the exact same feature they demanded could be used to spy ON THEM.
fucking ironic.
Quite; does this disable function fully and completely disable all attempts at using any ME functionality such that nothing can re-enable the ME, or is this disablement somehow impermanent or more limited in some way?
I ask because I vaguely recall that someone (Purism, perhaps?) had remote ME accesses disabled but still allowed local accesses. This struck me as nearly useless because such an arrangement would allow running a program to relay ME requests and responses over a network connection (an ME proxy, basically).
BTW: Sorry this is so late, I've been catching up on my mail. Do you have a reference for the NSA disabling the ME?
Thanks, David