I know, right? If the IME were installed on the boot ROM and easily deactivated, then we could assume it was just a feature for IT admins to run remote updates

I know, right? If the IME were installed on the boot ROM and easily deactivated, then we could assume it was just a feature for IT admins to run remote updates on fleets of computers. The fact that they chained it to the processors inside the SOC is a dead giveaway for mandatory backdoor. Where are the lawsuits? I mean, how do people think Palantir is able to sell access to everyone's "phone calls, emails, money, or any other material flows?” See Munn, Luke. "Seeing With Software: Palantir and the regulation of life.” Studies in Control Societies, 2017 (https://www.academia.edu/download/67734248/Seeing_With_Software_Studies_In_Control_Societies.pdf https://www.academia.edu/download/67734248/Seeing_With_Softw...) (describing Palantir's Gotham Platform which is used by governments around the world). It's as if no one has ever heard of the Fourth Amendment, e.g. Carpenter v. US, 585 U.S. 296, 138 S. Ct. 2206, 201 L. Ed. 2d 507 (2018).