> telling people how they can totally disable that nasty ME thanks to the apparently very well meaning NSA. > I don't claim to be nearly well versed enough to

> telling people how they can totally disable that nasty ME thanks to the apparently very well meaning NSA. > I don't claim to be nearly well versed enough to understand if that NSA advise is actually useful Why do you think that it's thanks to the NSA, and not despite what the NSA wanted ? What NSA advice ? Also, Dell supposedly can sell you IME-disabled (?) (thanks to this?) Intel CPU computers if you're a large enough organization. Of course it could be that it's actually a fake way to disable IME – can we really know without having the firmware source and checking the hardware, which is likely to be a monumental task considering the level of miniaturization these days ..?