What security features do P3/P4/PM systems lack? I only know that the Intel ME was introduced with early Core 2 systems and that is well known to have security issues. Today people spend extra money for a system where you can disable the ME in the UEFI though it is only disabled by a setting then and can be re-enabled any time. I would prefer a computer without Intel ME.
Am Mi., 13. Apr. 2022 um 21:11 Uhr schrieb Michael Stone <mst...@debian.org >: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 08:18:30PM +0200, Levis Yarema wrote: > >What about Spectre /Meltdown? P3/P4/Pentium M systems don´t have that? > Core 2 > >systems to my knowledge can. > > There's no reason to believe netburst systems are not affected by any of > the cpu issues identified in the past few years, but they are obsolete > and unsupported so nobody is making official statements about them. > These systems also lack a number of security features present in modern > CPUs; picking an ancient chip for "security reasons" is likely > misguided. Also, in the context of this thread, note that the most > recent Core 2 processor was released in 2010. > >
