> Especially ME, which has been thoroughly reverse-engineered by the security community by this point.

Links? Activists say the opposite, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine#Assert...

"Activists" =/= "Security Experts".

Like I said, ME has been literally almost completely everse engineered and no one's found evidence of it being a backdoor.

everything in that article could legitimately just be attack vector reduction