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0 pointsboring_twenties5y ago0 comments

> Owning my computer is still relatively possible.

Sorry to burst your bubble, https://libreboot.org/faq.html#intelme

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rouzh5y ago

Happy to deflect your bursting! :)

https://www.raptorcs.com/content/base/faq.html

amatecha5y ago

Excellent to see - thanks for sharing these!

boring_twentiesOP5y ago

Thanks!

HideousKojima5y ago

https://puri.sm/learn/intel-me/

Purism was able to completely disable Intel's ME

boring_twentiesOP5y ago

No? Your link says nothing about "completely," you just made that up. What it does say is that they remove the "nonessential" bits, plus flip the HAP bit. You can do both of these things yourself with me_cleaner, but it's not good enough. Exploitable vulnerabilities have been found in the bits that cannot be removed.

edit: E.g. https://nitter.dark.fail/rootkovska/status/93845887552266649...

fsflover5y ago

Not completely, but to a large extent: https://puri.sm/learn/software-freedom-in-perspective/

b0tzzzzzzman5y ago

Great stuff. First time I flashed a chip with SPI or started learning and playing with surface mount chips. Old ThinkPad are still very capable and empowering if you like playing with software and hardware.

Coreboot is great as well, but a bit different.

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