Petition for Intel to Release an ME-less CPU design
Hi, this post was originally published in the spanish forum by trinux. I just wanted to share it with you for more people to know about it:
Hi everyone
The guys from Purism had started a petition for Intel to release a CPU without Intel Management Engine.
In 2014 the FSF protested this technology:
https://fsf.org/blogs/community/active-management-technology
In Libreboot's FAQ you can read about the inconvenience of this CPU:
https://libreboot.org/faq/#intelme
In summary, the Intel Management Engine and its applications are a backdoor with total access to and control over the rest of the PC. The ME is a threat to freedom, security, and privacy.
Even though Purism has been criticized over the years, I think is worth it to support this petition. It's been years since Intel started to shift towards evil privative software. ¡Let's all sign and share the campaign!
Intel will ignore any such petition.
Yes, I think so, probably this is what would happen. But anyway, we must to try!
I understand.
Kinda sad isn't it?
Yes. Perhaps a final admission that their goal was impossible, which the knowledgeable people knew all along and saw through their PR stuff. They've gone from "we can do this" to "Intel please do this."
In my country(México), the law used to require that all the software were FREE (as in free of speech).
There was this record were all the software needed to be. And anyone could check it. And make copies.
But then México, USA and Canda signed the NAFTA and things changed.
Lately i've been thinking about that law a lot.
The Federal Judges of my country are doing a lot of modern things, specially the Supreme Court, and there could be a small chance (I know a really tiny) that they ruled that this record is obligatory again. Making free software obligatory in México.
I just need to buy hardware ask for a recipe and then sue the company that makes the hardware.
The only 2 things that keeps me from doing this are:
1.- I need to study more.
2.- I need to find the right company, I can't sue Intel, they are way to big, it has to be a small one.
The way law works in México if that lawsuit is won then you can sue anyone else and win.
I think that there is a small chance because Free Software is already in the law. But NAFTA is against it.
IANAL (I'm not a lawyer) but these guys are, maybe they could help you.
I am a translator!
happy ianal to all!