Neutralizing Intel's Management Engine

[brakmic]

http://hackaday.com/2016/11/28/neutralizing-intels-management-engine/

[eivarv]

Previous discussion on original source (17 hours ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13056997

[vog]

This is a great step forward to regain control over our devices!

I hope this kind of hack won't lead to laws making this kind of tampering with your own devices illegal. (If this seems absurd to you, think about copyright laws which make similar tampering on software-side illegal by forbidding circumvention of copy-protection.)

[userbinator → vog]

Very related story: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html

To paraphrase an old saying, "If you outlaw debuggers, only outlaws will have debuggers."