It might be useful to go over Wikipedia's entry for both platforms, here's the IME: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine https://en.wikipedia.

It might be useful to go over Wikipedia's entry for both platforms, here's the IME: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine And this for the T2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_T2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_T2 Neither of these are obscure products, they are of great interest to reversers and other security researchers. The list of shady things IME does which the T2 isn't known to is extensive.