> Whatever thought process led you to think it was an obscure conspiracy theory - did you check Wikipedia? I'm guessing you haven't encountered the conspiracis

> Whatever thought process led you to think it was an obscure conspiracy theory - did you check Wikipedia? I'm guessing you haven't encountered the conspiracists on sites like 4chan and Gab where they literally claim that you can extricate all data from the machines while powered off. Do not underestimate the idiocy and extremism behind some of these conspiracies. They have widely stupid claims that are outright impossible, but because it's terrifying to users who don't know better otherwise, the truth gets muddied. Yes, IME/AMT can be accessed as long as the machine has utility power. However, the machine still has to be remotely powered up to access anything else (e.g. if there were an exploit that allowed remote extrication of in-memory data loaded by the OS because, well, the OS has to be booted). So yes, I'm well aware of this. I think the problem is that you haven't encountered some of the really wild and ridiculously extreme interpretations of this conspiracy on, shall we say, the vestigial fringes of the Internet that harbor some equally stupid notions. It's no accident that the people who think $THREE_LETTER_AGENCY can access all of your personal photos and information with your machine powered off via IME/AMT are almost uniformly also the types who think that 5G is going to instigate mind control or believe the Earth is flat. I know of these because I regularly find it perversely amusing to debate them because I'm either stupid, crazy, or both.