Intel has been sorta/kinda comprimising every single computer containing their chipsets for quite some time now. The Intel Management Engine will make a lot of

Intel has been sorta/kinda comprimising every single computer containing their chipsets for quite some time now. The Intel Management Engine will make a lot of tinfoil hats tingle: http://hackaday.com/2016/11/28/neutralizing-intels-management-engine/ http://hackaday.com/2016/11/28/neutralizing-intels-managemen... Libre-boot and coreboot promote a kind of transparency where you know what your system is booting and why. It's much better than having this proprietary walled garden with astounding amounts of power/control inaccessible to anyone but Intel in your machine. Intel would of course argue that this is necessary for good crypto and it's for the users, not against them. Which may hold true a little bit....until it's compromised by someone.