When I'm shopping for a datacentre or a business I don't just want those features, I want the good stuff. All the remote provisioning and remote wiping features and batch management et cetera make all the sense in the world for business-owned devices that are managed by the thousands in a corporate context. This functionality, 'Out of Band Management' - and especially ipKVM (the ability to remotely intercept and take over a system's keyboard, video and mouse) is typically one of the prime selling points on a server.
And then why do even some technically gifted users, in the year 2022 - a decade after it was introduced - flip out when they find out about the little computer inside their computer that has full control and never turns off? One might think with a feature that is so powerful, has so much potential, that clearly cost a fortune to develop and has downright creepy ubiquity - if not enforced implementation - that Intel would do more than very vaguely, extremely quietly market it to anyone but the highest volume IT department executives. and if we can break into it, what of those invested in it? Literally invested: state actors, the moneyed folk. even on machines that Intel doesn't commercially support remote management functionality on. Then again, is that hysterical or is it accurate? Maybe if it hadn't been locally exploited. or to be hysterical: Brainstorming Methods to Defeat the Spying Rootkit Backdoor Intel Hid in Your Chipset.
