> I just ran the detection tool on my laptop and I am running a vulnerable version of Intel ME, but I can't even do anything about it until my system manufactur

> I just ran the detection tool on my laptop and I am running a vulnerable version of Intel ME, but I can't even do anything about it until my system manufacturer provides a patch for it. I would carefully analyse if patching is a good thing. Those vulnerabilities might be used in good way to disable ME and all this intel crapware completely, while if patched, this again may be impossible without doing manual chip clip and reprogramming with external device. Of course YMMV. Here, nice read of current way, using raspberry pi and clipping ME chip while motherboard is off: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Sakaki%27s_EFI_Install_Guide/Disabling_the_Intel_Management_Engine https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Sakaki%27s_EFI_Install_Guide/Di...