Hello Ivan and Nico, thanks for your answers. That clarified a lot. I still have some questions:
>Being a closed source this firmware may contain the backdoors or help > the backdoor-like functionality of intel me. So yes, this is a privacy > concerning thing. >>Well, don't use modern controllers (ethernet, USB, etc.) if you don't >>want proprietary firmware in them. But that's far from the original >>question... To sum it up, I have 4 possibilities: 1. Live without ethernet firmware and without internet 2. Use the untrusted ethernet firmware with a small risk in terms of security/privacy 3. Don't use the ethernet firmware and only use a free miniPCIe Wifi card? Is this possible? 4. Don't use the ethernet firmware and only use a free USB Wifi stick >Also worth to mention, you don't have to add this file or any related >file (ME, IFD) into coreboot. This option is only for people that want >to put everything into a single file to flash at once. You can instead >just write coreboot only, to the respective BIOS region in flash. And >leave everything else intact. But than I can't disable Intel ME and can't use me_cleaner? If I read correctly: when you disable Intel ME, you have to insert IFD and GbE into coreboot? Btw, do I also have to insert EC firmware than? Greetings
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