Remote ‘kill switch’ added to Intel’s newest processor

[Sol Invictus]

Jason Douglass
Infowars.com
December 14, 2010

At first this sounds great: if an owner loses a laptop it can be remotely disabled to ensure no sensitive data is compromised. But essentially we are giving up control of our computers and putting that control in another’s hands.

With the Patriot Act in place and and legislation like the ‘kill switch’ bill, many of the rights we took for granted are threatened. It is well within reason to fear this type of technology as it could be used as a means of control and censorship.

The CIA recently created a ‘honeypot’ on a hijacked mirror site associated with Wikileaks and used it to identify people who download the sensitive data.

University students have been warned not do download Wikileak’s documents under threat of being blacklisted from government jobs.

Homegrown terrorism is the new buzz being cultivated by DHS and various other government agencies. In publications like MIAC report, authorities identify patriots as dangers and label them probable terrorists.

Full Article (http://www.infowars.com/remote-kill-switch-added-to-intels-newest-processor/)

[anonymaus]

vPro--the cluster of technologies to which the article refers--is indeed a troubling addition to computer systems. The fact that it cannot be disabled is what makes it so disturbing; there is no excuse to prevent users from disabling it in the BIOS. Were it a simple matter of offering an extra security option to business, educational institutions, or government agencies, it would be no trickier than sysadmins locking down the BIOS, of each machine under their purview, with a password. The security features would remain enabled for those sensitive areas of operation, and typical users could simply flick the switch to shut it off entirely.

That it cannot be disabled really is cause for concern.

[lei.talk]

Originally Posted by Jason Douglass http://www.theapricity.com/forum/images/jagohan/buttons/viewpost.gif (http://www.infowars.com/remote-kill-switch-added-to-intels-newest-processor/)
...if an owner loses a laptop it can be remotely disabled to ensure no sensitive data is compromised.
how does this facility differ
from the dis-abler on cell-phones:

typing in "*#06#" on a cell-phone
will cause the fifteen-digit serial-number to display;

when the service-provider of that cell-phone
is notified it has been stolen
and that serial-number is provided -

the mobile will be blocked
even if the sim-card (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subscriber_Identity_Module) is changed.


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