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by mqus 2243 days ago
Ok, I'll bite. I call it(the chosen names) a conspiracy theory. I'll explain.

Search for "intel me" or "amd psp" or "ime psp" and you will find what you're looking for. If you're reading about it or hearing about it you will most likely also know the brand or the company behind it. If you're searching for psp and only find Sony stuff then of course you will repeat your query with more context. Is that not the first thing you will learn when you google something?

More importantly, they could have chosen much better words/abbreviations for not being "googleable". But they didn't because the IME/PSP is also something they sell to enterprise customers and very openly so.

Don't get me wrong. I'm still skeptical if those features are needed on consumer hardware and of the intentions behind it but the name being intentionally hard to search for is not something I'm worried about.