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A comment on Librem 13 coreboot report: It’s Alive.

Re:Librem 13 coreboot report: It’s Alive by tubehouse on Saturday February 04, 2017 @12:41PM (#13567923)
A question about me_cleaner: can malware simply re-enable it? Or does using me_cleaner "brick" the ME system permanently?
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Re:Librem 13 coreboot report: It’s Alive by pgeorgi on Saturday February 04, 2017 @02:25PM (#13568528)
It removes enough parts of the ME firmware that it's stuck in whatever mode initialized by the ME's boot ROM (which is in-chip).

In principle it might be possible to upload code through an undocumented interface and get it to boot up later. Nobody (outside Intel) knows.

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