We call on Intel to work with us to enable removal of ME and AMT for users who don’t want it on their machines
My X1C has a BIOS option to “permanently disable” the AMT with big warning dialogs that doing so would never allow it to be turned on again. I wonder how it accomplishes that.
Oh, I disabled it and CompuTrace when I first got it, but I was just wondering how it permanently disables it in such a way that it can never be enabled again by some future BIOS update that just ignores the “AMT is disabled” flag.
I wonder if it’s something like eFuse? When the Droid X came out there was much rustling of the jimmies due to it’s inclusion of eFuse. Some people suspected it could/would self-brick if a non-standard firmware was used, fortunately that wasn’t the case but that technology would seem to exist. Or perhaps they packed some thermite into the die…
My X1C has a BIOS option to “permanently disable” the AMT with big warning dialogs that doing so would never allow it to be turned on again. I wonder how it accomplishes that.
Not brave enough to pull the trigger? :)
I figure AMT may be useful, but I did permanently disable the computrace.
Oh, I disabled it and CompuTrace when I first got it, but I was just wondering how it permanently disables it in such a way that it can never be enabled again by some future BIOS update that just ignores the “AMT is disabled” flag.
Surely Lenovo would only sign a bios update that respects that flag…. … .. .
I wonder if it’s something like eFuse? When the Droid X came out there was much rustling of the jimmies due to it’s inclusion of eFuse. Some people suspected it could/would self-brick if a non-standard firmware was used, fortunately that wasn’t the case but that technology would seem to exist. Or perhaps they packed some thermite into the die…