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tubehouse on Feb 4, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Librem 13 coreboot report: It’s Alive

A question about me_cleaner: can malware simply re-enable it? Or does using me_cleaner "brick" the ME system permanently?

pgeorgi on Feb 4, 2017 [–]

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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