Unless grannie got some rather spry game.

Indeed, the reprehensible nature of the ordeal is brought into focus in that turning the tables is, at least at present, not something grandma can deftly achieve. Bless the eternal arms race, that gilded cat-and mouse game of ages: all well and good, the only problem is that getting rid of ME is not a dance for the feint of heart. As long as there are hackers there is a way. I don't trust it when it tells me it's off - nevermind that: I know it's not off! And I sure as hell don't trust that the attack surface would be nullified even if it was! Can't just take it out - Intel's made damn sure that its tentacles are wrapped around the system's spinal cord and if you have the audacity to try to assert ownership over your own hardware you better believe it will brick.

So why does it need to be so tightly integrated - even on platforms its full functionality is not sold on? It strikes one as something akin to furnishing a shotgun to protect the cabin from black bears: logical and useful - were we not situated instead in a Floridian condo - and then keeping it loaded and by the door so any intruder that fancies their way in might find themselves graciously equipped, much to one's disadvantage.Ĭall me crazy, but I don't trust it. Not even a trace of it - I invoke the time weathered maxim: one vendor's trace is an adversary's vector. I do not want it in my personal, home-use desktops and laptops!. When I'm shopping for a datacentre or a business I don't just want those features, I want the good stuff. All the remote provisioning and remote wiping features and batch management et cetera make all the sense in the world for business-owned devices that are managed by the thousands in a corporate context. This functionality, 'Out of Band Management' - and especially ipKVM (the ability to remotely intercept and take over a system's keyboard, video and mouse) is typically one of the prime selling points on a server. And then why do even some technically gifted users, in the year 2022 - a decade after it was introduced - flip out when they find out about the little computer inside their computer that has full control and never turns off? One might think with a feature that is so powerful, has so much potential, that clearly cost a fortune to develop and has downright creepy ubiquity - if not enforced implementation - that Intel would do more than very vaguely, extremely quietly market it to anyone but the highest volume IT department executives. and if we can break into it, what of those invested in it? Literally invested: state actors, the moneyed folk. even on machines that Intel doesn't commercially support remote management functionality on. Then again, is that hysterical or is it accurate? Maybe if it hadn't been locally exploited. or to be hysterical: Brainstorming Methods to Defeat the Spying Rootkit Backdoor Intel Hid in Your Chipset.

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