mei-amt-check

There's two different components here. The first is the Management Engine. Unless this laptop is extremely old, it has one, and it's running. Depending on age, you may be able to prevent it from booting while still allowing the rest of the system to run, but probably not. The second is Intel's Advanced Management Technology (AMT). This is only available on systems with VPro badging, which generally means higher-end business laptops. AMT is much less widely used than you might think, so it's probably not enrolled anywhere. You can confirm whether AMT has been provisioned with https://github.com/mjg59/mei-amt-check, and as long as you have the system firmware password you should be able to reset the ME regardless. (Edit: I didn't make the relationship between these clear. All modern Intel laptops have ME. AMT is a software component that ru

I can confirm that on a coworker's MacBook 12,1 running ArchLinux mei-amt-check[0] reports no AMT. I'd rather have a more thorough ME test than just AMT I could run though, coupled with a statement from Apple that ME is or will be entirely neutered on Macs in the future. [0] https://github.com/mjg59/mei-amt-check

Fixed in this commit: https://github.com/mjg59/mei-amt-check/pull/4/commits/4f2fef...

Here is an issue for it: https://github.com/mjg59/mei-amt-check/issues/1