Both you and madez are correct, although I still agree with the principle behind the original statement. IME (and the AMD and ARM equivalents) are a gaping secu

Both you and madez are correct, although I still agree with the principle behind the original statement. IME (and the AMD and ARM equivalents) are a gaping security hole in all modern processors and that should terrify everyone who cares about security at all. Think about things like Meltdown and Spectre and that's in parts of the processor we can actually audit, now consider all the exploitable flaws that are lurking in things like IME that we (although presumably nation states can) can't audit.