> systems without IME exist Not if you're buying Intel, they don't. The IME reads the HAP bit during boot, and if that's set will set its state to disabled, bu

> systems without IME exist Not if you're buying Intel, they don't. The IME reads the HAP bit during boot, and if that's set will set its state to disabled, but it's still there and you're still relying on the software to actually behave as it's supposed to. The same applies to the hardware disable mechanism which involves doing fucky stuff with some of the HDA pins.