From: not@telling.you.invalid   
      
   Scott Dorsey  wrote:   
   > Farley Flud   wrote:   
   >>The Intel ME can be disabled in the motherboard BIOS.  Whenever   
   >>I build a new machine it is one of the first things that I   
   >>disable.   
   >   
   > No.  The interface that makes the ME visible to the operating system   
   > can be disabled, but the ME is still down there doing whatever   
   > undocumented things it does.  If it wasn't, the processor would never   
   > be able to load the microcode in the first place.   
      
   Indeed. Wikipedia summarises potentially more effective ways of   
   disabling some IME functions using me_cleaner. Installation is   
   risky though so I haven't tried it myself.   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine#Disabling_the_ME   
      
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