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		foodstances on June 16, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Intel ME subsystem can take over your machine,... You can't. The whole point of the thing is that it can't be disabled and will always be running to let your theoretical IT department take over your machine.

effie on June 19, 2016 [–]

I got ME disabled in BIOS on my Lenovo S30 (manufactured around 2012 I think). Do you think this option in BIOS setup insufficient to turn it off? Is the ME still running and listening to commands coming from the network?

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