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So, forgive me for this probably being an oversimplification, but is this the same sort of thing as the old Clipper Chips? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clippe

• khedoros 10y ago
  As I understand it, the clipper chip was a combined encryption accelerator and key escrow device, with the escrow basically working as a government backdoor. The Intel Management Engine is another computer in your computer, running its own OS, and able to see everything your computer is doing, and modify it, including things like network transfers.