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0 pointsGigachad3y ago0 comments

Isn’t the primary purpose of the ME to run DRM and back door the system? How would it be useful at all open source? People would just turn it off entirely.

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GekkePrutser3y ago

I could imagine a super low power coprocessor that's always on would be a real useful tool. It could check my email and other low power tasks.

And remote management isn't bad if it's entirely under my control. It's the closed nature that makes me distrust it.

GigachadOP3y ago

This has already been solved. Modern devices come with low power general purpose cores and OSs can wake up briefly to check for new messages. I just can’t see why you would ever want to remote manage your own laptop where some software installed on the OS isn’t sufficient.

wmf3y ago

I just can’t see why you would ever want to remote manage your own laptop where some software installed on the OS isn’t sufficient.

It's to remotely recover when Windows corrupts itself. (Which is far less common than it used to be.)

borissk3y ago

Intel recent CPUs come with efficiency cores and support S0 standby, aka "Modern Standby", which can periodically wake up and do stuff like check for new emails.

GekkePrutser3y ago

They do but it's not nearly as low-power nor as constantly available as Intel ME is.

Avamander3y ago

There have been earlier attempts at achieving this functionality by Intel, can't recall what they called it right now, but it has existed for a while.

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GekkePrutser3y ago

I could imagine a super low power coprocessor that's always on would be a real useful tool. It could check my email and other low power tasks.

And remote management isn't bad if it's entirely under my control. It's the closed nature that makes me distrust it.

GigachadOP3y ago

wmf3y ago

I just can’t see why you would ever want to remote manage your own laptop where some software installed on the OS isn’t sufficient.

It's to remotely recover when Windows corrupts itself. (Which is far less common than it used to be.)

borissk3y ago

Intel recent CPUs come with efficiency cores and support S0 standby, aka "Modern Standby", which can periodically wake up and do stuff like check for new emails.

GekkePrutser3y ago

They do but it's not nearly as low-power nor as constantly available as Intel ME is.

Avamander3y ago

There have been earlier attempts at achieving this functionality by Intel, can't recall what they called it right now, but it has existed for a while.

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