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What are the key advantages of Intel vPro for business PCs in 2025

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With remote work still a priority, how does vPro improve security, manageability, and performance compared to standard consumer processors?”

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How will you utilize the tool and why? Without knowing that, we can’t answer your question or offer constructive advice.

In decades we never found it to be an advantage.

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Just small business here with dozens of users so it never was used or purposely deployed.
As such it’s a TAX or TARIFF that we all pay for and don’t use. Seems Intel and AMD could have saved a few billion here.

Or it’s a Spy Tool: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1ic51s6/comment/m9vyqgb/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

“MeatBoneSlippers •3d ago

Spying isn’t the only concern when it comes to ME or PSP. In 2017, researchers discovered vulnerabilities in Intel ME (CVE-2017-5705 to CVE-2017-5712) that allowed attackers to execute arbitrary code at the highest privilege level (Ring -3). AMD PSP vulnerabilities have also been identified, such as CVE-2019-9836, where researchers found ways to bypass PSP security features.

Some researchers and privacy advocates suspect that these technologies could be used for espionage, especially given historical cases of government-mandated backdoors (e.g., the NSA’s involvement in weakening encryption standards). There’s also a 2018 Bloomberg report alleged that China had secretly implanted spy chips in Supermicro hardware, which intensified concerns about hardware-level espionage.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-09/new-evidence-of-hacked-supermicro-hardware-found-in-u-s-telecom

The concerns about ME and PSP aren’t just paranoia—there’s documented evidence that they’ve been vulnerable to exploits, and there’s also information suggesting that some governments are using hardware for espionage.”

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