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fsflover
on Oct 29, 2020
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How is this disinformation? The Intel ME is replaced with zeroes, except a few percent:
https://puri.sm/posts/neutralizing-intel-management-engine-o...
, and it’s hardly functional.
octoberfranklin
on Nov 9, 2020
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The Intel ME is a circuit, not a software program. You can't "overwrite" it. And the HAP bit doesn't do what you think it does:
https://twitter.com/rootkovska/status/938458875522666497
fsflover
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You can overwrite most of it:
https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner
. AFAIK such overwriting will fix the bug in your link (and this is exactly what Purism is doing).
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