sandy bridge

[SKLAVENITIS]

ive been hearing this on some other forums that the new sandy bridge has a DMR and a kill switch does any one know if this is true

 

[lasher]

and your concerns would be what?

 

[SieB]

The Killswitch is for businesses and it's for laptops only. Basically it's a anti theft service, if your laptop is stolen a "poison pill" can be sent to the laptop via a encrypted SMS and disable the laptop and the hard drive. There are a lot of people making a big drama over it making out hackers are going to hack your laptop and disable it, the thing is the service is only for businesses and you first have to enable the service, if you are a tin foil hat simply don't activate the service, problem solved. And even if your laptop did get shut down accidentally the process is fully reversible.

As for the DRM, again people are making a big drama over nothing, all it does is stop pirates from ripping films that are streamed over Intels new streaming service "Intel Insider" which is only available with Sandy Bridge CPUs. It does not have an impact on anything else you do on your computer and just like the killswitch you do not have to use the service.

 

[lasher]

Yeah i knew the answers was getting ready to slap someone if they started complaining about their so called right to criminal activities.

 

[SieB]

Yeah i knew the answers was getting ready to slap someone if they started complaining about their so called right to criminal activities.

I just thought i'd explain it for people before all the conspiracy theorists and tinfoil hat wearers see the thread and start with all the bull that is going around on other forums.

 

[SKLAVENITIS]

The Killswitch is for businesses and it's for laptops only. Basically it's a anti theft service, if your laptop is stolen a "poison pill" can be sent to the laptop via a encrypted SMS and disable the laptop and the hard drive. There are a lot of people making a big drama over it making out hackers are going to hack your laptop and disable it, the thing is the service is only for businesses and you first have to enable the service, if you are a tin foil hat simply don't activate the service, problem solved. And even if your laptop did get shut down accidentally the process is fully reversible.

As for the DRM, again people are making a big drama over nothing, all it does is stop pirates from ripping films that are streamed over Intels new streaming service "Intel Insider" which is only available with Sandy Bridge CPUs. It does not have an impact on anything else you do on your computer and just like the killswitch you do not have to use the service.

thanks man that's what i kinda thought it was to but just wanted to get some more information on it thanks again P.S kinda funny posted that some pic when on another board talking about same subject