Disabling the Intel Management Engine
It makes me so unhappy that this is what things have come to. They make hardware that we can&#x27;t control, there&#x27;s no real alternative to buy, and now we gotta rely on volunteers and wiki pages to give instructions that might work but who knows you might brick it.<p>I wish there was more widespread outrage over ME and PSP and &quot;trusted computing&quot; so we could collectively tell them to stop selling this garbage. There&#x27;s so much cynicism out there, though, that I think the public would hardly bat an eye if they knew that all hardware since 2008 or so has secret backdoors. We&#x27;re just used to this kind of abuse and control.<p>I haven&#x27;t bought a new computer since 2007 because I don&#x27;t want backdoored hardware. If it really is For My Own Safety, as they advertise it to us, then let me control it!