While that article is correct, it's full of FUD with the constant littering of 'secret' and 'take over' in the text. We already know about Igor's research and

While that article is correct, it's full of FUD with the constant littering of 'secret' and 'take over' in the text. We already know about Igor's research and the published ARC CPU reverse engineering, "Ring -3" rootkits and the DEF CON presentations. This is bad, and this needs even more reverse engineering so at some point we might add an 'open' replacement for the required ME functions and run it together with say, LibreBoot/CoreBoot. I wonder why there haven't been any NDA ME or ARC docs leaked yet, even some of the Broadcom SOCs had those leaked and via cleanroom design proper FOSS drivers for some of the wireless parts were created... this should be possible with the Intel ME as well. Hell, even a FOSS version or at least partially reverse engineered and modified version of laptop EC firmwares have popped up on the 'net.