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nitrogen on July 3, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Invasive, secretive “bossware” tracking workers

Yes

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Active_Management_Tech...

Plus the laptop "anti-theft" BIOSes that phone home whose name I cannot recall.

bob1029 on July 3, 2020 [–]

Computrace?

WarOnPrivacy on July 3, 2020 | [–]

That'd be it. My Thinkpads let me permanently disable it.

MintelIE on July 3, 2020 | | [–]

That's what the BIOS claims anyway...

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