Publicly available information about Intel ME

I wonder if anyone has given thought to the possible dangers (some of) the engineers at Intel could be in. Intel has created, from my understanding, the ultimate backdoor.<p>This is something that governments worldwide, large criminal organizations and others would be interested in.<p>I can&#x27;t believe I&#x27;m even typing something like this! It reads like something from a bad dystopian film. To even have something like Intel ME considered would have been mind-blowing enough. To have implemented it... there are no words.

The list, which is only 6 links and a small part of the blog post, is only a tiny, unrepresentative part of the ME research corpus.<p>The real title of the blog post is &quot;The Bad Thing&quot;; I&#x27;m glad that&#x27;s not the HN title, but our current one is unrepresentative of the content. Perhaps, &quot;Intel ME: The Bad Thing&quot;.

I have had pretty good luck running me_cleaner on various computers - the main difficulty is the hardware access to the SPI flash, but once you have that it&#x27;s not too difficult, and low risk because you can always flash a backup of the original back on.<p>It is a bit unfortunate that all we can do is disable some modules or set the HAP bit without knowing exactly what has been neutralized, but it&#x27;s certainly far better than the extremely limited control Intel provides the user over the ME.<p>It will be interesting to see if Intel tries to make this more difficult with future iterations (it will certainly be even more suspicious if they do).

Misleading information about Intel ME (your ME probably can&#x27;t access the network and probably doesn&#x27;t contain a Web server) filtered through black-and-white thinking instead of risk analysis.<p>Also, this topic has been rehashed to death on HN already.