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Later on she says:

> I will bring this to the attention of the product team for serious consideration, so please feel like you have been heard even if we were not able to give you an easy 'yes' right away.

Which is not a commitment of course, but goes the extra mile to make it clear that it's not your standard PR reply either.

Let's hope!

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Still sounds like a standard customer service response to me, just from a good CSR. "Please feel like you have been heard"? I think that captures it.

I'd love it if this happened, it would make me change my purchasing habits to prefer AMD over Intel. But I'll believe it when I see it, and I can't say this post on their forums changes my assessment of the probabilities at all.

The CEO and other management were in the same thread answering questions... but not that question. The reply is just polite PR unfortunately.

It isn't on their forums, it is a Reddit AMA.

The slam-dunk would be if a factory-new processor's purchaser has the option to have the built in TrustZone ARM management chip able to trust keys provided by the owner (blow a fuse or something?), so unlike Intel IME, someone who wants to avoid their computer's Ring -3 being owned by organized crime can take steps more reasonable than http://hardenedlinux.org/firmware/2016/11/17/neutralize_ME_f...

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