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[–] dontforgetaboutevil [S] ago  (edited ago)

Everything Ive read on the subject says you cant remove the ME. Ill check into this though. Also there is no patch. Im not talking about the malice or Spectre hacks. Im talking about the management engine.

As for damages that is easy. My computer has been wide open to hackers the whole time Ive had it. Every single time my co.puter has failed has been a damage that intel is possibly responsible for.

Furthermore im pretty sure if their advertising said, "and we've included an unregulatable backdoor into your system!" Nobody would buy it.

I bought products from intel specifically to have a secure system. Not an open one. Intel deliberate ly misleads with their advertisememt.

Everything else aside I have 750 bucks worth of hardware that isnt secure now so it is worthless to me. That is damage. Plain and simple.

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[–] 11734616? 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

The ME is basically a chip running firmware and that firmware can be 'partitioned' into various modules (just like you can partition a disk).

MECleaner removes all the modules it can without hosing the environment - it's not perfect but it does get rid of things like the ability to monitory the TCP/IP stack.

Frankly, it's better than nothing.

More here: https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner/wiki/How-does-it-work%3F

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[–] dontforgetaboutevil [S] ago 

I'll check into it. All I can say decisively is that intel has lost a customer forever.