Right now to remove ME you need to connect an external flash programmer. It seems really unlikely that anything they do with a firmware update will be able to

Right now to remove ME you need to connect an external flash programmer. It seems really unlikely that anything they do with a firmware update will be able to block that at least if someone can get a pre-change image. Maybe there is a way to reprogram to disable ME without the flash programmer which these fixes may block. If my laptop weren't already ME disabled, I'd probably apply the fixes.