Dell T7500 and the hunt for the Intel ME Spy-Engine. // ME-Code not found in BIOS update. So where it is?

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ludwig...@gmail.com

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Jul 27, 2020, 7:52:09 AM7/27/20
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Hi all

If you want to play with the bios images, you can download them at 
dell dot com
with your service tag number of the box.
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So to get the real romfile, the file that is written to the flash,
in order to do some research with it, call

wine T7500A18.exe /writeromfile

which will write  T7500A18.rom.
and wants you to click a message with OK-button.

So looking for intel-me code:
you might want to use:
https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner

If you call

python me_cleaner.py T7500A18.rom
it says:

Unknown image

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So there might still be me code me_cleaner does not know, or the bios
is ME_free.
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Or is the bios update just a delta-update, and the ME-firmware is still there, not
beeing modified.

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I tried with A13 to A18 and me_cleaner did not find me_code, as it
reported "Unknown image".
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Any thoughts where the ME-firmware could be hidden, or to make sure,
that the T7500 is really ME-free, as it seems to be?

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