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U.S. inks bill to force geo-tracking tech for high-end gaming and AI GPUs
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this post was submitted on 23 May 2025
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I didn't know you could disable it. I figured it was very impractical or near impossible to do. how did you do it?
I'm not going to lie, raspberry pis are a good candidate for a desktop but they're still very underpowered compared to modern computers. That's my only critcism. But yes, i'm not sure if there's any spookware on any of the raspberry pis.
In the BIOS options of that specific server (nothing fancy, a generic Dell with some Xeon processor) the option to enable/disable ME was just plainly offered.
Chipset features > Intel AMT (active management technology) > disable (or something similar, my memory is a bit fuzzy). I researched the option, got worried about the outcomes if someone learned to exploit it, and made it a policy of turning it off. It was about 2 years ago.
P.S.
I'm sure there exist tools for the really security-conscious folks to verify whether ME has become disabled, but I was installing a boring warehouse system, so I didn't check.