[coreboot] Disabling Intel ME 11 via undocumented mode

[Raphael Jacquot]

On 08/30/2017 07:06 AM, Taiidan at gmx.com wrote:

> Yes it is called AMD-PSP and present in the newer stuff such as AM4 and
> FM2+, although they did entertain the idea of providing a method to
> disable it in a reddit thread which a PR guy claims the CEO paid
> attention to so I suppose a corporate customer that purchases sufficient
> volume could convince them to actually do it. much better than intel's
> ignoring of the issue.

sounds more like intel designed the thing to be disabled by the NSA for
their use, but hiding the fact very well so that the same NSA are able
to use some possibly yet unknown integrated backdoor to hack into
everybody's else machines