Purism – a San Francisco, California, social purpose company that flies the flags of privacy, security and software freedom – has begun offering its GNU/Linux-based laptops with Intel's Management Engine disabled.
The Intel Management Engine is a hidden coprocessor at the heart of Chipzilla's vPro technology. Part of the Platform Controller Hub – a multifunction chip that interfaces a computer's main CPU to peripherals – the Management Engine offers a way for system administrators to manage large numbers of PCs over a network using out-of-band communications.
It's also widely despised by security professionals and privacy advocates because it relies on signed and secret Intel code, isn't easily alterable, isn't fully documented, and has been found to be vulnerable to exploitation, though the Active Management (AMT) module in recent Management Engines. In short, it's a tiny potentially hackable computer in your computer that you cannot totally control, nor opt-out of, but it can totally control your system.
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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/21/purism_cleanses_laptops_of_intel_management_engine/
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