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I simply think that a an explicit backdoor in Intel ME would be quite a risky move, but I do not have access to non-public information, so who knows? Also, the ME plays a fundament…

The F-Droid auto updating feature does not require signature spoofing, just the F-Droid Privileged Extension (which can be installed on every ROM with custom recovery).

The signature spoofing in this ROM can be granted only to system privileged apps (so, built in or installed through a ZIP in recovery): the user can't turn it off (why should he?),…

microG also reimplements the Google Maps APIs (using OpenStreetMaps) and the Location APIs (with different backends, like Mozilla Location Services or a local offline database). Th…

See https://lineage.microg.org/#faq7 Also http://blogs.fsfe.org/larma/2016/microg-signature-spoofing-s... is an interesting read

OpenGApps != microG OpenGApps are just the usual bloated proprietary Google Apps, just packaged in a nice and handy way. See https://lineage.microg.org/#faq1

https://lineage.microg.org/#faq3 LineageOS works without the GApps, but you lose lots of (fundamental) things, like network location and GCM (push notifications). Moreover lots of …

https://lineage.microg.org/#faq6

me_cleaner is Python script that operates on a dump, it can't modify the firmware without the help of other tools; this guide just explains in detail the complete process of using …

Any Intel CPU has Intel ME, independently from the MB vendor

Please report it here https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner/issues/3 Thanks

Check Federico's reply here https://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2016-November/08... tl;dr: power cycle (power off and then turn on, not just reboot) your PC after the ME ne…