As a matter of principle, I'm opposed to attaching even more computers outside the user's control to supposedly "personal" computers. In the pursuit of securit

As a matter of principle, I'm opposed to attaching even more computers outside the user's control to supposedly "personal" computers. In the pursuit of security (or just the excuse of it), more functionality is being given to opaque, locked systems (SSD firmware, management engines, etc.), instead of freedom-respecting solutions (there is no technical reason systems can't be fully open-source, with user-controlled cryptographic keys, and a tamper-evident mechanism as some smartphones already have - i.e. a "bootloader unlocked" warning message). This moves power away from users and to the manufacturers, contributes to the jenga-tower of technical complexity, and eventually worsens security, once vulnerabilities in these systems are inevitably found: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine#Security_vulnerabilities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine#Securi...