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Intel Spy Chip
The Intel Management Engine (ME), also known as the Intel Manageability Engine,[1][2] is an autonomous subsystem that has been incorporated in virtually all of Intel’s processor chipsets since 2008.[1][3][4] It is located in the Platform Controller Hub of modern Intel motherboards.
The Intel Management Engine always runs as long as the motherboard is receiving power, even when the computer is turned off. This issue can be mitigated with deployment of a hardware device, which is able to disconnect mains power.
Intel’s main competitor AMD has incorporated the equivalent AMD Secure Technology (formally called Platform Security Processor) in virtually all of its post-2013 CPUs. (Always using the “security” reason to spy on people.)
And:
The subsystem primarily consists of proprietary firmware running on a separate microprocessor that performs tasks during boot-up, while the computer is running, and while it is asleep.[6] As long as the chipset or SoC is supplied with power (via battery or power supply), it continues to run even when the system is turned off.[7] Intel claims the ME is required to provide full performance.[8] Its exact workings[9] are largely undocumented[10] and its code is obfuscated using confidential Huffman tables stored directly in hardware, so the firmware does not contain the information necessary to decode its contents.[11]
src: “https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine”
What a wash eh? What percentage of performance was missing in the old systems exactlly? There is a market now for pre-2007 Thinkpads, increasingly becoming popular with developers and it seems to perform well enough for their needs.
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Reply Rajiv Sharma Avatar Rajiv Sharma October 26, 2023 at 12:51 pm
Intel Inside joke got me the first time I really understood it. How could I not have caught that even as a normie back then?
https://itsfoss.com/fact-intel-minix-case/
Hmm, this sounds exactly like Intel ME:
“The Trusty OS runs on the same processor as the Android OS, but Trusty is isolated from the rest of the system by both hardware and software. Trusty and Android run parallel to each other. Trusty has access to the full power of a device’s main processor and memory but is completely isolated.” https://source.android.com/docs/security/features/trusty