> People have been begging Intel for a very long time to make business-tier chips without remote access capabilities. Yes. But somehow, any time anyone brings

> People have been begging Intel for a very long time to make business-tier chips without remote access capabilities. Yes. But somehow, any time anyone brings up wanting a device without one, people start poo-pooing the idea. "Just don't use it." "That's paranoid." "Just another CVE, yawn." In a ton of discussions over the years, I have yet to hear a single plausible, benign reason for why the ME's 30 minute timer must be impossible to disable by the owner of the chip.