Re: [free-software-melb] puri.sm: Neutralizing the Intel Management Engine on Librem Laptops

2017-06-16 Thread Ben Finney
Damien Zammit writes: > I helped write me_cleaner specifically to remove the remaining huffman > encoded modules such as its kernel and network stack. Thank you for working on ‘me_cleaner’! > The truth is, nobody currently knows the consequences of writing 0xff > over these

Re: [free-software-melb] puri.sm: Neutralizing the Intel Management Engine on Librem Laptops

2017-06-16 Thread Damien Zammit
Hi, I helped write me_cleaner specifically to remove the remaining huffman encoded modules such as its kernel and network stack. The truth is, nobody currently knows the consequences of writing 0xff over these specific regions, i.e., perhaps NSA still has a way to upload firmware updates through

Re: [free-software-melb] puri.sm: Neutralizing the Intel Management Engine on Librem Laptops

2017-06-16 Thread Jookia
On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 03:45:16PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Howdy all, > > (This is a few months old, but I haven't seen it discussed here.) It's really good to see this, and a good reminder that every impossible to break wall has a weak spot. Hopefully we can use this opportunity to liberate