Much less dire than the initial headline makes it sound after the errata:
Correction – these chips are on server motherboards, not on PCs or other consumer devices.
I believe the same security-minded arguments made against these BMCs referred to in the article can be made for Intel AMT as well (which is much more pervasive, and can exist on consumer chips/machines!):
You can’t control it. You can’t patch it. It can completely control your computer’s hardware and software. And its purpose is remote monitoring.
Much less dire than the initial headline makes it sound after the errata:
I believe the same security-minded arguments made against these BMCs referred to in the article can be made for Intel AMT as well (which is much more pervasive, and can exist on consumer chips/machines!):
Yes, Intel AMT is horrible. At some point some malware will try to turn that to be able to keep a backdoor open in case the OS gets reinstalled.