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by hasenj 3984 days ago
But that doesn't really say much!

How does their hardware tackle privacy issues? What do they do exactly?

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They put some power switches on the webcam/microphone and wireless modules. That's about it.

They also disabled signature verification on the chipset firmware, but it's not clear that solves any privacy issues, given that the only extant firmware is the closed-source one from Intel. (If anything, disabling signatures is a net negative for privacy, as the authors of a malicious replacement wouldn't even need access to Intel's signing key to create one.)

Intel Boot Guard is about the BIOS, not the "chipset firmware".
Not much, according to this article, as there are many firmware blobs that are still entirely opaque: http://blogs.coreboot.org/blog/2015/02/23/the-truth-about-pu...