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Thinking of buying a second hand Elite Desk small factor to throw Linux on. I'm worried about the HP firmware-bios thingy. Does it call home? Can I disable calling home somehow? Can it have access to my hard drive info ?

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[–] fenndev@leminal.space 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've no idea what you're referring to aside from maybe the Intel ME, but there may be a way to flash coreboot on it.

[–] WeAreAllOne@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

When any pc starts, isn't there the boot up menu etc? I'm referring to that. In that menus there are options of remote access or firmware updates etc apart of course the usual setup options like in what turn the boots take place eg HDD, network, dvdrom , USB and others like time, date etc.

Intel ME is one concern yes but I doubt I can flash corevoot on this machine as it is almost 2 years old.