David Potocnik wrote:
Is it possible to remove/defuse this whole thing with a Coreboot flash?
That depends on the..
technical details about how the peculiar Absolute thing operates.
..which I don't know. Here are some conditions:
If the Computrace thing is implemented exclusively in BIOS/UEFI then yes, it is replaced by flashing coreboot.
But if the Computrace thing is implemented in part through a ME module then no, it would not be completely replaced by coreboot per se, but perhaps you could use me_cleaner to remove such a Computrace ME module (if there is one), and combined with coreboot replacing BIOS/UEFI then you would have removed all of it.
It seems likely that you could get rid of it, but you should look for those technical details.
//Peter