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Bug#885152: ITP: intel-me-cleaner -- Tool for partial deblobbing of Intel ME/TXE firmware images



Hi Matthias,

On Dec 25, 2017 06:46, "Bálint Réczey" <balint@balintreczey.hu> wrote:
Hi Matthias,

Would you like to upload the PureOS package with small changes to Debian?
I remember we talked about you possibly packaging it for Debian but I did not
know it was already available for PureOS in the repo.

If you don't plan uploading the version from PureOS I plan uploading mine which is a bit more recent.

Cheers,
Balint


2017-12-25 0:18 GMT+01:00 Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk>:
> Quoting Balint Reczey (2017-12-25 00:02:20)
>> Package: wnpp
>> Owner: Balint Reczey <rbalint@ubuntu.com>
>> Severity: wishlist
>> X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
>>
>> * Package name    : intel-me-cleaner
>>   Version         : 1.0+git20171022.g2ff65c1
>>   Upstream Author : Nicola Corna <nicola@corna.info>
>> * URL             : https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner
>> * License         : GPL-3.0+
>>   Programming Lang: Python
>>   Description     : Tool for partial deblobbing of Intel ME/TXE firmware images
>>
>> The Intel�� Management Engine (ME) is a microcontroller embedded in
>> most Intel chipsets manufactured since 2006 that runs independently
>> from the main CPU.
>>
>> It is not removable from the system and it runs a signed proprietary
>> firmware, with full network and memory access, which poses a serious
>> security threat. Even when disabled from the BIOS settings, Intel ME
>> is active: the only way to be sure it is disabled is to remove its
>> firmware from the flash chip.
>>
>> This package allows removing parts of the signed proprietary firmware
>> effectively disabling the Management Engine.
>
> You might benefit from the .deb package done for PureOS:
> https://repo.pureos.net/pureos/pool/main/m/me-cleaner/

Thanks Jonas!

Cheers,
Balint

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