Applying Occam’s razor to Intel ME and similar security issues: conspiracy with some evil agency is possible. Maybe. But not the only explanation. Following th

Applying Occam’s razor to Intel ME and similar security issues: conspiracy with some evil agency is possible. Maybe. But not the only explanation. Following the money suggests Intel was chasing an enterprise market and didn’t bother to think through the consequences (unlikely) or made a car-manufacturing style decision where the costs of failure were deemed to be overshadowed by the profits on their balance sheets. For seven years the Ford Motor Company sold Pinto cars in which it knew hundreds of people would needlessly burn to death. It had a better design but it would have cost production delays to implement it. Less money to have people die than fix the issue when it was noticed in testing. While I’m not equating Intel’s actions to Ford’s in direct comparison, I would say the bean counter thought process is far more likely than conspiracy.