> And even if one does not want to accept it what are the choices given similar technology is now integrated in other processors? Unfortunately, there are few,

> And even if one does not want to accept it what are the choices given similar technology is now integrated in other processors? Unfortunately, there are few, but alternatives are being pursued by a few different groups which you can support in various ways. In rough ascending order of time horizon: - Minifree sell old ThinkPads, with old processors which predate the ME, and use Libeboot[0] - Purism use new processors, but do their best to neuter the ME, by buying processors with minimal remote control features, stopping the ME from being able to control the networking card, using and running Coreboot. They're working to use me_cleaner to completely neutralize the ME on new processors, but there's lots of work to do to fix bugs caused (e.g.[1]). I think they'll get there in the end![2] - Raptor Engineering are trying to fund a run of fully open POWER processors (less powerful cores, but loads of them). Avoids Intel altogether. Very large upfront costs. - The RISC-V team at Berkeley are working on a new instruction set. Years before you can buy anything, but I'm sure there's a way to send them beer money, or apply to work there![4] None of these is projects is ideal, but by supporting them you're enabling people who care to keep working on the this problem. [0]: https://minifree.org/ https://minifree.org/ [1]: https://puri.sm/posts/neutralizing-intel-management-engine-on-librem-laptops/ https://puri.sm/posts/neutralizing-intel-management-engine-o... [2]: https://puri.sm/ https://puri.sm/ [3]: https://www.raptorcs.com/TALOSII/ https://www.raptorcs.com/TALOSII/ [4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V