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On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 1:48 PM, Bill Kontos vkontogpls@gmail.com wrote:
nothing in return" my purchase decision will not change. So far all that they lied about was the timeframe at which they would ship the features,
nooo, they lied - in a deceptive way - about the consequences of that quotes tiny little bit right at the beginning of the boot process quotes.
they made it look like, because everything else was libre, there was really absolutely no harm done by having the ME firmware, you really had nothing to be concerned about, you could buy one of their machines and have a totally secure system.
we know this to be absolute horseshit in an extremely significant way libreboot.org/faq/#intelme
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.
now.
is ANY of this mentioned on purism's main sales web page?
if the answer is yes, i apologise deeply.
l.