Isn’t this just an ad for their custom laptops? There isn’t really that much talk about Intel ME, which is a shame.
Their BIOS is foss
Does that mean they can actually disable the IME?
iME can be “disabled” if you go along with all the hand-waving. The nuts and bolts of it is that the ME /must/ execute when powering on the CPU, but then there is a moment in the boot sequence in which it can be disabled. For some people, that’s good enough.
I can’t watch videos but I will say that my biggest problem with the iME is not the security issue, but the anti-consumer aspect. Intel decided non-corporate consumers (who do not want or benefit from iME) can be disregarded marginalized. So disabling iME is insufficient and misses the problem.
The answer is to boycott iME CPUs. I never bought an intel CPU after 2008. I write this comment from a 16 year old PC just fine. I have pulled some more recent hardware out of dumpsters, ensuring I do not support anti-consumer products.
Damn, running such an old CPU must be a total pain. Its crazy that the damn NSA needed to force Intel, but if you can disable it that sounds kinda okay.
