On Sun, 2015-04-12 at 00:54 +0200, Michael wrote: > The libreboot laptop mentioned by Francesco have Intel AMT removed. I didn't > even know what this feature does, and looked it up. > > It's no surprise that corporate giants like Intel oder AMD evolve into that > direction, but still, thinking about the kind of implicit power (for example, > theoreticaly they could activate webcam and mic and transmit over WLAN) makes > me shrivel. > > Gross: "Security technologies that protect access to the AMT features are > built into the hardware and firmware. As with other hardware-based features > of AMT, the security technologies are active even if the PC is powered off, > the OS is crashed, software agents are missing, or hardware (such as a hard > drive or memory) has failed." > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Active_Management_Technology > > Thanks for bringing this privacy and security issue to our attention. I didn't know about AMT myself and it is definitely something one should not ignore.
There is one more issue that is relevant in general and I take into account before buying. Most modern laptop are much less powerful than older ones (as a rough measure compare processor speed), given the current tendency of concentrating processing power and applications on the server side. Loredana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1428839002.2008.26.ca...@lisin06.lan
