Talk:Intel vPro

Security and Intel vPro PCs

I've added some vPro critical info to the "Security and Intel vPro PCs" section, as I have seen no vPro security criticism's in this article which is written like an advertisement from Intel as other's have noted. Please expand this information, also it is an interesting article that is linked.

Here is the text I added:

"However this article: "Big Brother potentially exists right now in our PCs, compliments of Intel's vPro" http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/39455/128/ raises many potential security concerns for PC's with vPro. The fact that there is apparently no way to disable vPro on a PC along with the fact that most users cannot detect outside access to their PC via the vPro hardware based technology is a serious concern."

The section raising security concerns regarding Intel vPro was removed by an IP registered to Intel (Oct 5th 2009 edit by IP 192.55.54.39) The usertalk page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:192.55.54.39 says: "This IP address, 192.55.54.39, is registered to Intel Corporation; United States; Santa Clara" I am reverting the article to include the security concerns about Intel vPro by the www.tgdaily.com article, as this article still reads like an advertisment from Intel and these are significant security concerns.

vPro Features and Processors

• AFAIK vPro only specifies firmware features (such as remote management and virtualization) and not a specific chip (such as Core 2 Duo) although it does require certain processor features (such as the virtualization instructions or XD bit). The technical docs leave the reader with this impression; the marketing docs may be correct.

Intel Live Chat is referencing this page

• This reads like a technical document from Intel. Seeing as how they have a live chat going on today (Oct. 9th) as an advertisement on Slashdot, and it keep referring to this page for more information, I imagine Intel may have edited it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 136.242.105.211 (talk) 18:10, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Can we ban Intel from editing this page?

The question is more of a joke, but last year I ripped out most of the advertising jargon and replaced that banner. A few other people added good information about which specific processors support VPro. Now it's back to the way that it was with all the Intel garbage in it and no real information. I'll start editing it if I get time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sumdog (talk • contribs) 17:17, 20 May 2009 (UTC)