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1. neurot+(OP)[view] [source] 2016-04-09 18:59:40
A friend does something similar with his laptops ThinkPad laptops for certain applications. He disconnects/removes the microphone, camera, bluetooth module and re-flashes the BIOS with a custom version.

On some ThinkPad models, there is a chip associated with the LAN management engine (AMT) that should be disabled as well. This isn't the Management Engine controller itself, only has a power management role for AMT & WoL that cannot normally be disabled.

My ThinkPad has a physical switch for Wifi and Bluetooth, although apparently that is only window dressing and can be bypassed with a BIOS setting (& configuration tool from Lenovo)

What do you think of having a hardware firewall processor for the Wifi and Ethernet interfaces on security focused laptops?

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