Thunderbolt Flaws Expose Millions of PCs to Hands-On Hacking

It'a actually hard to get one with it. Our go-to vendor for mobos, SuperMicro, doesn't have it on board or in an add-on card for their workstation product line.

https://www.supermicro.com/support/faqs/faq.cfm?faq=26987

From the article

> All the evil maid needs to do is unscrew the backplate, attach a device momentarily, reprogram the firmware, reattach the backplate, and the evil maid gets full access to the laptop,"

There's a lot you can do with this sort of access. The "evil maid" could also hide a camera in the room that can see the computer's keyboard and get passwords, etc. I wouldn't worry too much about this risk. Not too many laptops can be quickly unscrewed and put back together these days....