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Intel ME Cleaner
Tool for partial deblobbing of Intel ME/TXE firmware images - corna/me_cleaner
me_cleaner is a Python script able to modify an Intel ME firmware image with the final purpose of reducing its ability to interact with the system. This poses an issue both to the free firmware implementations like coreboot, which are forced to rely on a proprietary, obscure and always-on blob, and to the privacy-aware users, who are reasonably worried about such firmware, running on the lowest privilege ring on x86. For generation 2 (Nehalem-Broadwell, ME version between 6 and 10) this tool removes almost everything, leaving only the two fundamental modules needed for the correct boot, ROMP and BUP.
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