[frickfrock999]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/hardware/researchers-find-a-way-to-disable-much-hated-intel-me-component-courtesy-of-the-nsa/
Quote:

According to a highly technical blog post, Positive Technologies experts revealed they discovered a hidden bit inside the firmware code, which when flipped (set to "1") it will disable ME after ME has done its job and booted up the main processor.

The bit is labelled "reserve_hap" and a nearby comment describes it as "High Assurance Platform (HAP) enable."

High Assurance Platform (HAP) is an NSA program that describes a series of rules for running secure computing platforms.

Well there you go.

The NSA just saved your life.

YOU'RE WELCOME.

 

[epic1337]

so will we get a BIOS version with an on-off toggle?

 

[tpi2007]

Repost: http://www.overclock.net/t/1637207/the-register-intel-me-controller-chip-has-secret-kill-switch