Intel ME has very useful legitimate purposes for existing. It's a very powerful tool for some people, and most people would call you a conspiracy theorist for s

Intel ME has very useful legitimate purposes for existing. It's a very powerful tool for some people, and most people would call you a conspiracy theorist for suggesting that Intel, or someone who manages to get security creds from Intel, would misuse them break into your computer. I have also had allegedly advanced system engineers tell me that there is really no risk for an outside party being able to compromise your system with this technology, but I remain pretty skeptical of that claim. In short, the overlap between people who know about it and are also security conscious is pretty small. There's also dozens of other things people should be more concerned about in terms of a corporate or state actor gaining unauthorized access to your computer.