Motherboard for Intel processor without Management Engine
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Darkbreeze
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You don't HAVE to install the Intel management engine on any of the Intel boards. It's purely optional. You do have to install the chipset .inf drivers, but the management engine isn't a mandatory feature. I didn't install on on my current Skylake system until about a month after I did the OS installation. On most client systems, I don't install it at all.
Do you mean drivers for Intel Management Engine? I have meant the Intel Management Engine itself, which, as far as I know, is a dedicated ARC processor and can work even when an OS is not loaded. This processor runs special firmware. And can be used to manage the computer without an OS installed. Or I am mistaken? Why the Intel Management Engine will be switched off if the drivers are not installed?
I want to find a motherboard without Intel Management Engine or where the Intel Management Engine (e. g. ARC processor itself) can be completely disabled. Or at least where the Intel Management Engine guaranteedly cannot be used for remote access, anti-theft and so on.
And I don't like devices that forbid using alternative (open source) firmware, for example, by checking the signature (when this check cannot be turned off and when the owner of the computer cannot load his own signature key to the device).
It's a valid question, I don't really have a good response since the market doesn't offer it. If you're willing to be very experimental and low-power, try a Novena mainboard, a RaspberryPi or a Cube, a Chromebook with ARM, an iPad Pro or a Remix Mini. Not really mainboards, I know. But Intel and AMD have that market cornered.
Joanna Rutkowska has revealed that the thing is basically worse than a rootkit, and since the Core 2 Duo generation it can't even be disabled. You can switch it off in the BIOS, but that doesn't disable it, it just doesn't let you in anymore.
I'd also be interested if one ever comes out. AMD isn't much better with the PSP.
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