I think they're gonna deploy this as part of their vpro platform which means we should be able to shut it off. i think intel has been bitten by this one enough times (remember serial number identification in the cpu?) to have learnt their lesson (i hope)

Just wait until this software locks out a CEO or VP during a Powerpoint presentation just because someone else is driving the PC for the CEO from backstage.

epic fail incomming.

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Well.... may be yet another way to detect p2p throttling......
or detecting heavy usage of internet and penalizing.. them...

Wish it doesnt turn out to be a DRM crap..
just days have passed Blue ray+ improved.... bla bla bla DRM has been defeated..

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When will people. learn...
DRM does nothing that increasing costs and slowing things down.. making things buggy....

why not spend the same money on adding new features.. improving product. that reducing functionality.

"Standard protection software that triggers an alert if the amounts of traffic being sent out move above a certain threshold are flawed"

I've never heard of such a standard myself, well apart from the comcast standard that starts messing up your connection if you use your internet too much of course.
So I'm guessing intel is talking about ISP snooping crap when they say 'security' then eh, and about anti-p2p moves by the man.


There won't be any Linux drivers for this one...