Doesn't include chipsets before skylake yet. Aside from persistent ring -3 rootkits in Core2 hardware.
What to do with Intel ME after neutralization
Would have to know more about the exploit to answer that. They're doing a public presentation in a week or so, until then this is just speculation.
Well, at least it will be nice if we're able to de-kike current hardware rather than ancient stuff.
This is actually a good idea, this and the "power management drivers or clocks".
Does Intel ME even have 4MB of storage? (openwrt/lede require 4MB). If it does you won't even have to use the previously botnet features to pull the OS from the hard drive.
I believe most boards have an 8MB SPI flash which contains both the UEFI code and the ME code. ME was about 5MB, so big enough. Presumably would be replacing the UEFI with Coreboot/Libreboot, which might free up more room.