This is literally an above-the-fold advertised feature of vPro:<p>> Remote Manageability<p>> Remotely power up, update, and repair PCs outside of the firewall, even if they’re out-of-band1, to help your users from virtually anywhere.<p><a href="https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/now/itheroes.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/now/itheroes.html</a><p>> With features like hardware-level remote keyboard, video, and mouse control (KVM)1 3 Intel AMT allows you to discover, repair, and help protect networked computing assets as easily as if working in person.<p><a href="https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/vpro/active-management-technology/overview.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-tec...</a><p>Morale of the story here seems to be to actually bother to spend 5 seconds figuring out what you bought?
But if it's on localhost, how does the management engine get a chance to reply?<p>Are you sure you're not actually talking to some Windows service?<p>EDIT: From reading further in the Twitter thread, it is indeed a Windows service you're talking to.
Yup. I used that feature for many years to remote manage a file server at my folks place. Works great! Just don't expose it directly to the outside world.<p>Nowadays I'd probably turn it off and use pikvm instead, though.
No shit, AMT is literally the point of vPro. Why present it as some sort of conspiracy? Don’t buy enterprise hardware if you don’t like the enterprise features, I guess.