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by nextaccountic 654 days ago
The post is about the scenario where you disabled the TPM
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Librem laptops have a TPM separate from Intel ME. The post is about if you have nuked the TPM built into the Intel ME. I'd say "have separate TPM" is a viable alternative.
I don't see it. The post says "when you use me_cleaner to neutralize intel ME, it also removes TPM", which is just not true for my system.
I made a mistake when I wrote the post mixing up disable and neutralized but I hoped everyone would understand I'm talking about disabling it.
My Librem 14 has disabled ME; my Librem 15 has both disabled and neutralized ME. Both with Heads, TPM and Librem Key. I don't understand how the difference between disabled and neutralized matters here.
Yeah I didn't know it was possible because some laptops have the TPM in a seperate chipset than the one that has intel me. I thought they only set the hap bit to neutralize but I learned here that they can also disable it on laptops that have TPM on a 2nd chipset.