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Intel Management Engine (ME) explained | disabling the potential backdoor (www.youtube.com)

submitted 9 months ago by Pantherina@feddit.de to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 10 points 9 months ago

I have mixed feelings on ME tbh. It shouldn’t be in consumer grade hardware at all, but it definitely has applications in enterprise environments as far as device management goes. Having an out of band solution that runs independently of a given OS on your devices is handy.

Kinda like iDRAC for Dell servers

[–] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks 6 points 9 months ago

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