content: Removing the Intel Management Engine and securing the boot process (a follow up to an earlier security post on the IME) (Original thead is here: https://voat.co/v/technology/2282072 ) Nobody posted the ME cleaner before I did, and I got to the thread very late so this thread is for visibility: you CAN (and should) remove the Intel Management Engine from your computer's firmware. A timeline: THIS LINK DETAILS THE ME-CLEANER and how to use it: https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner/blob/master/README.md I may (don't count on it) update this post later with an addendum on why you shouldn't trust BIOS firmware vendors and how to secure your whole boot process (using coreboot/variants). All of this is made available courtesy of FOSS Linux devs.