Purism Now Shipping Their Laptops With Intel ME Disabled

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starshipeleven Yep, I would think a cheap ARM SoC running open firmware for TPM/AMD PSP/Intel ME purposes and some, if not all IPMI features wouldn't seem out of place on $200+ gaming motherboards and $2000 gaming laptops where WoW and Steam installs have 2nd factor auth turned on for security. It would all need to work with the BIOS, but that shouldn't be too hard to figure out vs purism already using coreboot.

Google is working on an open TPM module for chrome books: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...lding-OSS-TPM2

Someone like purism should be able to put it all together, or an Gigabyte, MSI, etc...

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There's an excellent guide about disabling ME on Gentoo's wiki; it's not for the faint of heart though.