On Wed, 7 Dec 2016 22:50:39 +0000 Alex Haydock <a...@alexhaydock.co.uk> wrote:
> Intel ME/AMT concerns me too, especially how unavoidable it seems to be > on modern CPUs (AMD is no escape, as they have an equivalent in the form > of their "Platform Security Processor"). On AMD that's been implemented only after "Family 15h" https://libreboot.org/faq/#amdbastards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_CPU_microarchitectures Family 15h itself is safe. It includes FX-series 8-core CPUs at up to 5 GHz supporting DDR3-2133 RAM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piledriver_%28microarchitecture%29 So don't handwave-away AMD with "they are doing that too", today you CAN have a non-backdoored modern high-performance CPU -- from AMD. -- With respect, Roman _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays