My two main machines are both 2009 models and have the last Core 2 Duo, "Penryn" in them. I guess they have all kinds of backdoors and unpatched exploits between ring -1 and the chipset, but I'm not sure if their old AMT units count as "proper" ME, so I didn't vote yet. That proto-ME stuff must have been there before the "pre-2008" that can be voted, I really don't know about the specifics.
(Score: 2) by Rich on Tuesday January 15 2019, @05:49PM
My two main machines are both 2009 models and have the last Core 2 Duo, "Penryn" in them. I guess they have all kinds of backdoors and unpatched exploits between ring -1 and the chipset, but I'm not sure if their old AMT units count as "proper" ME, so I didn't vote yet. That proto-ME stuff must have been there before the "pre-2008" that can be voted, I really don't know about the specifics.