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Re:Spy agency ducks questions about 'back doors' in tech pro... by fsflover on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @11:35AM (#24919974)
> - Your Intel system runs a special version of Minix on its Management Engine. A version of Minix customized for Intel by its original developer

Not on all systems. It's neutralized and disabled on my Librem 15: https://puri.sm/learn/intel-me/.

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Re:Spy agency ducks questions about 'back doors' in tech pro... by pulse7 on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @11:48AM (#24920169)
When Russian hackers discovered and started using Intel ME backdoor Intel immediately published (already prepared?) instructions on how to disable it...
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Re:Spy agency ducks questions about 'back doors' in tech pro... by octoberfranklin on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @05:25PM (#24924312)
Please stop posting this disinformation.
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Re:Spy agency ducks questions about 'back doors' in tech pro... by fsflover on Thursday October 29, 2020 @04:26AM (#24928358)
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.
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Re:Spy agency ducks questions about 'back doors' in tech pro... by octoberfranklin on Sunday November 08, 2020 @09:20PM (#25030823)
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

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Re:Spy agency ducks questions about 'back doors' in tech pro... by fsflover on Monday November 09, 2020 @11:46AM (#25036661)
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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