[Arm-netbook] OT: Librem 5?

[Bill Kontos]

On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 4:06 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
<lkcl at lkcl.net> wrote:

>  they made it look like, because everything else was libre, there was
> really absolutely no harm done by having the ME firmware, you really
> had nothing to be concerned about, you could buy one of their machines
> and have a totally secure system.
>

I don't recall that to be honest. From what I understand they said the
laptop would ship 100% libre from the beginning while they ended up
shiping a traditional laptop with killswitches and the ability to run
coreboot in the future, something that they achieved now. And they
have a decent number of articles about their work on disabling the
intel ME.

>  we know this to be absolute horseshit in an extremely significant way
> libreboot.org/faq/#intelme
>
>  now, it *just so happens* that someone recently discovered that the
> NSA has clearly had their fingers into intel processors... because
> they requested a DISABLE function of the ME back-door co-processor.
>
>  without such a disable function there would be absolutely no way that
> the NSA could authorise Intel processors for use either on their own
> premises or for any government usage.... because the exact same
> feature they demanded could be used to spy ON THEM.
>
>  fucking ironic.
>
>  now.
>
>   is ANY of this mentioned on purism's main sales web page?

I don't think it is and that switch was only a very recent discovery.
It's ironic, the moment intel moved the AMT to x86 everyone got into
breaking it. And there is a scheduled talk on how to run unsigned code
on any intel ME system for a conference in the next couple weeks.