I regularly hear story about IME that all seem disproportionate. From what I've seen, AMD has an equivalent, and mobile SoC are worse. Also, it looks like you r

I regularly hear story about IME that all seem disproportionate. From what I've seen, AMD has an equivalent, and mobile SoC are worse. Also, it looks like you really have to go out of your way to enable IME remote control, which makes sense because it is a premium feature aimed at professionals. And even if you actually have a backdoor on your PC, for hackers to exploit it, they somehow need to get to your local network first, which is not that easy on a home network unless your computer is the one to initiate the connection. I also probably won't work on anything but the built-in Ethernet port. I don't know what "field day" hackers had, but I suspect it only helped them compromise corporate networks they could access where IME remote control (vPro?) was actively used. It is indeed a serious concern and warrants a recall, but I've yet to see how it can be a concern to most individuals, at least compared to OS-level attacks. And if it is, firewalls, including the simple ones in home routers should be effective.