Interesting. Are there no known backdoors in the Lenovo X200/.../X230 Intel systems? I remember some bad news about Active Management Technologies.
How far along are these Open Architecture Systems?
How far along are these Open Architecture Systems?
An alternative to me_cleaner on some systems (like ThinkPad X200) is to replace the BIOS entirely with Coreboot [1]. More recently, it was found that me_cleaner appears to let you remove/disable all or part of Intel ME on those and some other architectures but still boot.
[1] My own notes from when I played with this, which was a mixed success (it was way too much headache to have a huge number of people each do): https://www.neilvandyke.org/coreboot/