Librem 14's ME disabled but not neutralized

This was a case of miscommunication internally where many of us (myself included and perhaps most significantly) didn’t know that the status of the ME changed with the Librem 14. I had thought the same process from the past could be and had been adapted in some form to the new CPU/ME. I was clearly mistaken.

I specifically removed “neutralized” last week from that page when I discovered I was mistaken in believing we would be able to perform the same neutralization in this new CPU as in past versions of ME. Somehow it didn’t go through so I just made the correction again and am generating the new pages now.

We aren’t compromising as much as we are facing the limits of the state of the art when you switch to a newer processor. I still very much want this new ME neutralized and due to various confusion (possibly completely on my side) I had thought the same approach that had worked in past processors would apply for the Librem 14. Otherwise I would have made sure we started looking into solutions for this earlier. Regardless, this is something I do want to look into now, but obviously it will take some time to find a solution.

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