[honestSysAdmin]

I want a Surface Pro, that exact hardware as perceived on the outside as a user, sans the ""accidental"" backdoors. I have partial responsibility running a business that administrates high value deployments and many of our internal users doing "general office stuff" want exactly this kind of hardware.

And I want one or two for myself too, sans the backdoors...

[AlotOfReading]

Are there any modern Intel systems that can boot without blobs like the FSP? Even system76 hasn't been able to manage that, only disable the ME after boot.

I suspect you're greatly misunderstanding your clients' needs, because what you're saying is not an officially supported option that exists for anyone outside government agencies.

[honestSysAdmin]

We have been running RaptorCS servers for years, are evaluating RISC-V based options in a lab, and we are looking at Oxide.

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What Purism offers with its Pureboot and hardware security chip that enforces deemed-tolerable ME payload is sufficient enough for our ask.

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> Are there any modern Intel systems that can

The lack of availability of a product does not change the desire for the product to exist. RISC-V is already successfully playing in a market space with products that satisfy my asks above, maybe Intel can catch up some day.

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> clients' needs,

Our clients came to us and were clear about what their ask was. I'm kind of chuckling right now, because one of clients in particular, if he saw your post would shoot back with "it's not called the Bill of Needs".

Some of the other ones are government. But I appreciate you trying to be helpful.