Intel has the ME Backdoor. Does AMD have something like this too?
Intel has the ME Backdoor. Does AMD have something like this too?
Andrew Flores
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Bentley Nguyen
yeah the "Platform Security Processor" or "AMD Secure Processor"
they were sucking open source cock just a minute before their new shit
James Russell
god damn
Blake Thompson
we only pick the evil we like the color better user
no such thing as "lesser" anymore
we can argue about performance for workloads or gaymen or whatever but in reality never assume any of them has your best interest in mind, because they don't
Dominic Foster
Come home, white man
Adrian Jenkins
If you believe what Intel and AMD say about the ME and PSP respectively, then the PSP is a lot less suspicious. The PSP doesn't have the remote management features of the ME. So it's not always on and online, in fact it should not have access to the network at all. But it's still a potential obstacle to freedom because of secure boot. Also, you can disable the PSP after booting whereas the ME is meant to be always running (AFAIK it's still possible to disable it using hacks).
Of course none of this is verifiable since the PSP is closed source just like the ME. Which also means nobody can inspect it for vulnerabilities or backdoors, or to ensure that it really does disable itself when asked to do so.
Samuel Howard
>Of course none of this is verifiable since the PSP is closed source just like the ME.
This. Consider both brands compromised.
Ethan Miller
>RISC-V
>Not MIPS or POWER
Hudson Green
>POWER
OpenPOWER is """open""" only to business partners.
>IBM is using the word "open" to describe this project in three ways:
>They are licensing the microprocessor technology openly to its partners. They are sharing the blueprints to their hardware and software to their partners, so they can hire IBM or other companies to manufacture processors or other related chips.
>They will collaborate openly in an open-collaboration business model where participants share technologies and innovations with each other.
>Advantages via open-source software such as the Linux operating system.
Not sure on MIPS though.
Michael King
aren't both of those ass loads of money?
Dylan Barnes
how to disable PSP?
Christian Long
MIPS is going entirely open
Mason Sanders
has anyone actually rechecked if the bios disable even worked for the periodic checking?
early on, I heard the recheck was every 30 minutes
has anyone disabled it from bios with their modified chips and checked if it shut down after the 30 mins?
Ryder Powell
In BIOS.
Adam Taylor
Where the fuck i gonna get my cpus from now
Henry Rivera
Nice. Any good hardware suggestions to look out for? I know about Lemote stuff including both their old netbooks and new desktop/server boards, but any other suggestions would be appreciated.
Carson Hill
PSP
Robert Hughes
Purism and Raptor Computing
Oliver Watson
get a block of wood and a pocket knife and whittle your own CPU
Adrian Bell
What about the FX series?
Leo Bailey
Neither of them make MIPS. I was asking about MIPS. Purism looks good for lappys, as I doubt we'll be getting anything non-x86 for a while, and for raptor see
Oliver Ward
MIPS has only recently announced that they're going open so it'll be a while before we see anything.
Raptor is still mostly blob-free, the ISA being open or not doesn't affect your privacy.