System76's Coreboot open firmware now manages to disable Intel ME

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I hope there is a new era of non-backdoored CPUs. But given that all CPUs are manufactured at like 2 production facilities worldwide, seems unlikely.

I love the software disable, but how complete is it? Is there a backup ME system on the chip? Can the firmware update be bypassed? Is this update actually affecting the ME or just the CPU's communication with it?

It's probably fiction, but I can't help but think of John Titor and his quest to find a certain Intel CPU model that existed before the hardware backdoors were built in