[Arm-netbook] OT: Librem 5?

[doark at mail.com]

On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 02:10:56 -0500
"J.B. Nicholson" <jbn at forestfield.org> wrote:

> Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> >   now, it *just so happens* that someone recently discovered that the
> > NSA has clearly had their fingers into intel processors... because
> > they requested a DISABLE function of the ME back-door co-processor.  
> > >   without such a disable function there would be absolutely no way
> > > that  
> > the NSA could authorise Intel processors for use either on their own
> > premises or for any government usage.... because the exact same
> > feature they demanded could be used to spy ON THEM.  
> > >   fucking ironic.  
> 
> Quite; does this disable function fully and completely disable all
> attempts at using any ME functionality such that nothing can re-enable
> the ME, or is this disablement somehow impermanent or more limited in
> some way?
> 
> I ask because I vaguely recall that someone (Purism, perhaps?) had
> remote ME accesses disabled but still allowed local accesses. This
> struck me as nearly useless because such an arrangement would allow
> running a program to relay ME requests and responses over a network
> connection (an ME proxy, basically).
> 

BTW: Sorry this is so late, I've been catching up on my mail.
Do you have a reference for the NSA disabling the ME?

Thanks,
David