alt Hacker NewsI appreciate the downvotes without any reasoning. It's a fact that newer Intel CPUs have Intel ME which was not in older CPUs and significantly increases attack surface if you are not living in a five eyes state.
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s20n • today at 11:47 AM
I agree with the first part. I think this article by FSF about Intel's ME summarizes the issue https://static.fsf.org/nosvn/blogs/Intel_ME_Carikli_article_...
As for the second part, I am not sure about how living in a five eyes state would mitigate it. What do you mean by that?
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In a server, you have to worry about the ME only if you also have an Intel Ethernet interface, which is connected to a potentially hostile network.
If that is not true, the ME cannot be controlled remotely.
The existence of the ME is much more worrisome in laptops, where the ME can be accessed remotely through WiFi. There, to be certain that there is no way for the ME to be accessed remotely you would have to disconnect or cut the internal antennas and use a USB dongle for WiFi.