Joanna Rutkowska has written about Intel based products that are possibly vulnerable to the Intel management engine code. Even if you run an open source operati

Joanna Rutkowska has written about Intel based products that are possibly vulnerable to the Intel management engine code. Even if you run an open source operating system such as Linux or FreeBSD, there is still proprietary code in the management engine that you cannot look or verify that its secure. Here is the paper http://blog.invisiblethings.org/papers/2015/x86_harmful.pdf http://blog.invisiblethings.org/papers/2015/x86_harmful.pdf UEFI is another gigantic hide point for malware. I think one could possibly run more simple platforms such as Raspberry PI, Odroid which may not have embedded management engines. That should be more secure than x86 platforms.