On Friday 20 Jul 2012 13:13:41 Michael Mol wrote: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 7:40 AM, <v...@ukr.net> wrote: > > Hello! > > > > On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 03:24:42 -0400 > > > > Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote: > >> I plan to build a new machine in the next few months: > >> it wb for regular desktop use, but performance is as important as > >> price. > >> > >> A quick look at what was available in April suggested > >> an Intel Ivy Bridge i7 ( 22 nm ) ; Phoronix said it works with Kernel > >> 3.2 > >> + an Intel Z77 mobo (I usually buy ASUS) & that power/watt was > >> excellent. > >> > > If you are considering to buy an Intel CPU, I'd recommend you to pay > > > > some attention to such Intel' technologies as this one: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Bridge#Intel_Insider_and_remote-contr > > ol because it doesn't looks like an advantage to the end user, but rather > > as a security (or privacy) hole in one's system. > > We went through this on this list a couple months ago. > > That tech has been part of business-grade laptops and workstations for > a while. It's intended as a tool for a corporate IT department, not > the direct user of the machine. > > I'm not saying it's something I'd necessarily like to have on my > personal devices, just that it's not exactly new.
I didn't know my laptop came with this <aheam> 'Intel rootkit' feature until I posted here a few weeks ago. I haven't done any research on this, but found these spooky pages: http://communities.intel.com/community/vproexpert/blog/2012/01/19/configuring- intel-vpro-with-linux-in-user-control-mode http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/download-the-latest-intel-amt-open- source-drivers/ I'm not sure how vulnerable my machine may be as supplied by Dell - I assume that unless the system is enabled first no out-of-band attempts will work. -- Regards, Mick
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