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by corna 3y ago
I simply think that a an explicit backdoor in Intel ME would be quite a risky move, but I do not have access to non-public information, so who knows? Also, the ME plays a fundamental part in the initialization of the Intel silicon (especial
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by corna 6y ago
The F-Droid auto updating feature does not require signature spoofing, just the F-Droid Privileged Extension (which can be installed on every ROM with custom recovery).
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by corna 9y ago
The signature spoofing in this ROM can be granted only to system privileged apps (so, built in or installed through a ZIP in recovery): the user can't turn it off (why should he?), but no app other than microG can obtain it. In this wa
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by corna 9y ago
microG also reimplements the Google Maps APIs (using OpenStreetMaps) and the Location APIs (with different backends, like Mozilla Location Services or a local offline database). The main Google-based service is Google Cloud Messaging, which
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by corna 9y ago
See https://lineage.microg.org/#faq7 Also http://blogs.fsfe.org/larma/2016/microg-signature-spoofing-s... is an interesting read
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by corna 9y ago
OpenGApps != microG OpenGApps are just the usual bloated proprietary Google Apps, just packaged in a nice and handy way. See https://lineage.microg.org/#faq1
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by corna 9y ago
https://lineage.microg.org/#faq3 LineageOS works without the GApps, but you lose lots of (fundamental) things, like network location and GCM (push notifications). Moreover lots of apps require the GApps API to work (often t
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by corna 9y ago
https://lineage.microg.org/#faq6
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by corna 9y ago
me_cleaner is Python script that operates on a dump, it can't modify the firmware without the help of other tools; this guide just explains in detail the complete process of using me_cleaner.
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by corna 9y ago
Any Intel CPU has Intel ME, independently from the MB vendor
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by corna 10y ago
Please report it here https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner/issues/3 Thanks
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by corna 10y ago
Check Federico's reply here https://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2016-November/08... tl;dr: power cycle (power off and then turn on, not just reboot) your PC after the ME neutralization.