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Remember that we have no idea whether Windows and Intel processors with IME (and AMD processors since Ryzen ?) don't have built-in backdoors (And Macs have been using Intel exclusively for years now, haven't-they ?). So nothing very new here, really...

https://blog.invisiblethings.org/papers/2015/x86_harmful.pdf

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Apple disables most of Intel's ME [0].

[0] https://support.apple.com/guide/security/uefi-firmware-overv...

Interesting... though they don't give a date. Was it 2006, 2017... a gradual process since 2006 ?

It's still in use for DRM though apparently, and so long as it still runs, and so long as we still can't audit it, it isn't trustworthy from a strict privacy perspective.

I don't believe the IME has anything to do with DRM. That would be TPM.

From the above linked Apple page:

> The primary use of the ME is audio and video copyright protection on Mac computers that have only Intel-based graphics.

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