content: Apparently the company found a way:  https://puri.sm/posts/purism-librem-laptops-completely-disable-intel-management-engine/  Disabling the Management Engine is no easy task, and it has taken security researchers years to find a way to properly and verifiably disable it. Purism, because it runs coreboot and maintains its own BIOS firmware update process has been able to release and ship coreboot that disables the Management Engine from running, directly halting the ME CPU without the ability of recovery