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jstanley

Normally you only run things if you think they are useful, and you are cognizant of the risk.

It's very hard to avoid running ME even if you believe it's actively harmful.

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That is a good point. I suppose you could mitigate that if you were building new systems and used AMD products.

AMD has its own equivalent of ME also.

How do you know that AMD does not run its own version of ME?

The only viable solution I see is open hardware.

What does viable mean? Where can I go out and purchase it? Yes, hypothetically, anything is possible.

viable == introspectable

Mitigation does not necessarily mean to entirely protect. Having less of a homogeneous ecosystem mitigates the risk of any one vulnerability, as it's unlikely to affect as many systems. It's not a solution, but it may help.

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