Why does Intel encrypt the code? It is unlikely that anyone would steal it because it is useable only with Intel CPUs and is protected with copyright. So the reasons are either Intel wants to hide something (a code that changes CPU behaviour when a benchmark is detected?) or wants to have some features that cannot be disabled or modified by the user.<p>It is difficult to believe that there is no backdoor.
Can we disable Management Engine entirely in order to don't waste energy, in addition to not having stuff that you don't know so that it will not run all of the stuff you do not need.