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Or buy a laptop from a manufacturer with the ME inoperable.

• spijdar 6y ago
  The entire ME can't "technically" be disabled on modern Intel silicon. It's essentially the processor that "bootstraps" the whole CPU. Without (cryptographically signed) code running on the ME, the system can never boot. All the non-necessary bits can be disabled out of the box, however.
  • RealityVoid 6y ago
    My understanding is that the DOD has access to machines with ME disabled. What is the capability that is disabled there, I wonder and how is that different than ME cleaner? Are they doing basically the same thing?
    • wmf 6y ago
      Yes, they seem to be very similar. https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner/wiki/HAP-AltMeDisable-bit https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner/wiki/HAP-AltMeDisable-bi...
      • questioning 6y ago
        In what sense?