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me_cleaner
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Power issue with my X250. Time to upgrade? (more info in comments)
Some times Intel version of Lenovo have a problem with Intel ME , check this out. LINK
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System76's Coreboot Open Firmware Manages to Disable Intel Me for Raptor Lake
Yes; there are several ways, depending heavily on the version, and ranging from most trustworthy to least trustworthy:
* By patching the ME firmware itself - see the me_cleaner project, and methods documented here: https://puri.sm/posts/deep-dive-into-intel-me-disablement/ . This is Pretty Reliable; the runtime code has been deleted from flash.
* By setting a bit in the flash configuration, assumed to be added for the US High Assurance program: https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner/wiki/HAP-AltMeDisable-bi... , https://www.ptsecurity.com/ww-en/analytics/disabling-intel-m... . This is Mostly Reliable; the mechanism has been fairly aggressively reverse engineered and was added for a program with strict requirements.
* By sending an HECI command that says "hey ME, turn off your runtime" https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/52800 . This is Somewhat Reliable; the method is well understood and seems to work but I'm not sure someone has done a deep dive audit into whether it could be re-enabled somehow.
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Modern CPUs have a backstage cast
"...this is interesting is because POWER9 is basically the first time the public got a real view of how sophisticated the backstage cast actually is of a modern server CPU."
Not quite correct; the OpenSPARC T1 and T2 were publicly released and available by 2008.
https://www.oracle.com/servers/technologies/opensparc.html
"Large parts of this process are handled by vendor-supplied mystery firmware blobs, which may as well be boxes with “???” written in them.
The maintainers of the me_cleaner script likely have the clearest view of what is known.
https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner
- What is the most trusted hardware most OpenBSD people would suggest?
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Let's find our next HW wallet
Your dedicated laptop with disabled Intel ME running OpenBSD might be the gold standard choice for your hardware wallet. Main discussion here.
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Laptop with deactivated Intel ME running OpenBSD as a hardware wallet for top cryptos
I consider a dedicated laptop with deactivated Intel ME running OpenBSD (maybe from USB flash) can be a much secure alternative to a proprietary hardware wallet connected to your casual multi-purpose laptop.
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On Intel ME
On a side note, if Intel has made it this hard to disable Intel ME, is the US government happy with this change? It was them who got the HAP bit part working, and I do not see any news suggesting they have another trick to disable Intel ME. Should I just assume that this still works? Has anybody here tried? And does me_cleaner still work (last updated in 2018: https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner)?
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I ordered my first laptop from System76. I'm so excited
This is incorrect. Intel ME has an internal disablement mechanism: https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner/wiki/HAP-AltMeDisable-bit this is the mechanism that it used by S76 and Purism.
- linux and tails compromised? if this is real we lost all privacy. found it on twitter
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Why I Use Old Hardware
If you are sensitive about the Intel Management Engine, the original Core 2 Duo/Quad systems are the last where it could be fully disabled.
Anything later will forcibly shut down after 30 minutes if (at least a fragment of) Intel's closed & bug-ridden monitoring code is not present.
I ran me_cleaner on a few of these systems, and I do all my finances with them running OpenBSD (usually on q9550s).
Yes, this effort to run old hardware is worth it for me. Below are the bios images that I was able to produce:
https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner/issues/233
Popsicle
- How to make multiple OS installed USBs quickly
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The Rust Implementation Of GNU Coreutils Is Becoming Remarkably Robust
popsicle
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What tool do you guys use to flash the Pop! OS iso? / Pop! OS NVIDIA iso kernel panics every time I boot it because it can't find /init
I'd use Etcher primarily due to it simplicity, and it's available on several platforms. Popsicle next if you have a linux system.
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smultaneously creating multiple recovery drives
There is also a project called Popsicle that lets you image multiple drives https://github.com/pop-os/popsicle
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Iso and pendrive
https://github.com/pop-os/popsicle worked for me across multiple systems
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Usb imagewriter
AppImage: https://github.com/pop-os/popsicle/releases
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Whats your favourite open source Rust project that needs more recognition?
Rust projects that need more recognition imo are: * Zola * Spot * Popsicle * Plume
- Can you recommend a USB Drive Creator?
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Solution! How you can disable Intel ME on Lemur Pro and Galago Pro!
https://github.com/system76/firmware-open/files/6728054/galp5-disable-me.zip https://github.com/system76/firmware-open/files/6728055/lemp10-disable-me.zip -> Extract .img file, flash to a USB flash drive with Popsicle (https://github.com/pop-os/popsicle, btw it is installed in pop os as "usb flasher") , and then boot from the USB flash drive to flash the firmware.
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Some of our projects will be translatable soon
Not sure how you get a raw request to that URL. It's a directory. This weekend I've made the CLI translatable as well. Translations are stored in https://github.com/pop-os/popsicle/tree/master/i18n
What are some alternatives?
firmware-open - System76 Open Firmware
System76 Power Management - System76 Power Management
thinkpad-firmware-patches - Collection of ThinkPad UEFI patches.
usbimager
t430-coreboot - coreboot rom for thinkpad t430
vagga - Vagga is a containerization tool without daemons
coreboot - DEPRECATED: coreboot on the w541. See link below.
tray_rust - A toy ray tracer in Rust
cadmium - [Moved to: https://github.com/Maccraft123/Cadmium]
magog - A roguelike game in Rust
thepyphone - Voice and SMS/MMS on a Raspberry Pi 3B+
cobalt.rs - Static site generator written in Rust