How many people are qualified to &quot;verify there&#x27;s no backdoor to your CPU&quot;?  Certainly not your average user.  If you can&#x27;t trust your CPU, what <i>can</i> you trust?<p>Allowing Secure Boot to be bypassed is a backdoor in itself.  Allowing the end-user to modify the firmware at all also allows malicious actors to do the same.