You're right that the barrier to open hardware is very high, but I hope that open firmware may at least help mitigate, if not solve, this problem. Buy a machin

You're right that the barrier to open hardware is very high, but I hope that open firmware may at least help mitigate, if not solve, this problem. Buy a machine with ME-like hardware, flash the firmware with something open source and trusted and which disables ME, or returns control to the system owner.