Friday Squid Blogging: Did Super-Intelligent Giant Squid Steal an Underwater Research Station?
There’s no proof they did, but there’s no proof they didn’t.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
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Ismar • September 27, 2019 6:01 PM
While thinking what to contribute to this weeks Squid blog the topic presented itself in a form of an uncalled for command prompt on my windows 10 Lenovo laptop displaying
“Installing Intel(R) ME 12.0 software components. Please wait”
This was followed by a couple of minutes of other prompts notifying me of low level drivers being installed.
As this was the first time the I turned the machine on after a week of absence (machine was turned off and not connected to the internet and no settings to prompt the installing of the IME were changed) I was intrigued to find out more and ended up with this page offering a perspective on the IME
https://hackaday.com/2017/12/11/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-intel-management-engine/
Even if this is a legitimate install / update to the IME the whole process is so poorly designed leaving me wandering about its purpose ?