Kill Switch On Sandy Bridge

[CrayonMuncher]

This seem strange this could be open to exploits of all kinds, surely if someone wrote the right piece of malware they could stop your computer forever.
How in the hell are intel going to enure it is 100% safe?

http://www.techspot.com/news/41643-intels-sandy-bridge-processors-have-a-remote-kill-switch.html

 

[tremmor]

Interesting in deed.

 

[paulcheung]

Maybe is not permanently kill, just shut down like cell phone chips that Intel can re-activate if you can prove you are the right owner.?

 

[gamblingman]

This sounds like a colossal sized headache. I truly hope they keep an option to opt out of that system on their chip sets.

 

[Russ88765]

A hacker's dream come true. I definitely won't be buying one. I could see that being the start of something nasty. AMD for me please!