The ME/AMT is the nastiest of them all. And those are not the only ones. FSP, the CPU microcode. You can get rid of AMT if you're on older hardware, or your wi

The ME/AMT is the nastiest of them all. And those are not the only ones. FSP, the CPU microcode. You can get rid of AMT if you're on older hardware, or your willing to buy a laptop from (US) http://www.libiquity.com/ http://www.libiquity.com/, (UK) https://minifree.org/ https://minifree.org/ or (EU) https://tehnoetic.com/; https://tehnoetic.com/; The future is bleak though, there's not much hope in sight freeing anything from Nehalem onwards. I have a Thinkpad X201, and flashing coreboot with blobs is the best I could for the moment. I do remember though that I had Gentoo 100% from sources a few years back. But updates were too much of a pain in the ass, and after tweaking the compiler flags, I always ended up breaking my system. So I'd take reproducible builds over that.