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Re:What is AT&T doing at 1111340002? by raverbashing on Sunday November 07, 2021 @01:56AM (#29137167)
The IME is just a "smarter than needed" addition, so it's probably not too hard to take it out

But every PC has a SMC which deals with things like power-on, WOL, etc

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Re:What is AT&T doing at 1111340002? by _kbh_ on Sunday November 07, 2021 @09:01AM (#29139494)
You can remove “modules” of the management engine but it’s responsible for booting the x86 cores so you cannot entirely turn it off.
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