Intel and ME, and why we should get rid of ME
I don't see how getting rid of the ME helps. If you don't trust Intel then you don't trust Intel. They can backdoor the main CPU as easily as they can backdoor the ME. The only true solution is an Open Source Hardware CPU, and some means of verifying that the hardware matches the HDL.<p>There are already Open Source CPU designs, but the verification is more difficult. Even if you use a big enough process node that you can decap it and inspect it optically (eg. using similar techniques as used with <a href="http://visual6502.org/" rel="nofollow">http://visual6502.org/</a> ), there is still the possibility of dopant-level backdoors which are much harder to detect:<p><a href="http://sharps.org/wp-content/uploads/BECKER-CHES.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://sharps.org/wp-content/uploads/BECKER-CHES.pdf</a>