Dear Alexander.
This is a question to help me understand what libreboot can do and what not. First off I want to thank all the contributers and developers for their time and effort and make clear that when I ask about "the limitations of libreboot/coreboot" I am well aware that they are reflect the obstacles put in the way of the developers which do anyway the very very best. Thank you.
I would not declare AMT bad/biased in general. What we would need is a transparent free implementation of the protcol and options to switch it off, if unneeded.
I already tried to get in contact with Ylian, who is a Free Software developer at Intel and who did most of the AMT/ME code, but he did not reply yet.
> I am a victim of Intel AMT. I use a Thinkpad x201 (which is a vPro iCore
system) and by this may very well assume to be hacked by the NSA which can via Intel use the ARC chip in the vPro Intel AMT. This is very sad, moreso that I have just recently become aware of this threat. My question henceforth is that if I made the purchase of a Thinkpad X200 (which for some bad luck can only be bought second hand, and makes trust even less as the previous owner can have tampared with the system), can I "clean the system of some of its evil spying and manipulation and criminalization technology?"
I don't get your point here. Why do you think buying a used device might make trust even less? Do you really trust the vendor/shipper?
Besides that, with flashing Libreboot, you will overwrite any existing code in the BIOS, so at least this should be Free. That does not mean, backdoors could not be included in silicon or any other part of the hardware (e.g. this one: http://www.golem.de/1405/sp_106690-79290-i_rc.jpg on a MacBook Air).
In the end, we would need Free Hardware Specifications (including chipset/processor), but this is still a long way to go.
Is there an indication that a flashing the bios with libreboot will allow to disable Intel AMT? If this was so, is there any technical mean (i.e. a multimeter or other technical device, which would allow me to confirm this with some reliability).
As said, Libreboot does not ship AMT at all atm.
For good or for bad there is some paranoia. Is there any way to gain some trust to other users? I think no other technical mean would allow to get trust, than to bunch up with other users to get to know each other personnaly well enough and to henceforth trustfully devide the work of auditing.
Yes, a standardised auditing process could be possible/established. As far as I know, there is no plan to do so, yet.
Greetings Marcus PS: There is something broken with your line-breaks
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