@marcan nodds in agreement #Apple doesn't need to have backdoors in Hardware when their entire #iCould is backdoored and can be weaponized to brick devices.

• OFC similar functionality can be achieved with #CompuTrace on #amd64-based #Laptops (i.e. #ThinkPads) and compared to that, #AMT + #ManagmentEngine is trivial to #exploit and should be considered real #backdoors (abeit "well meaning" in the sense of remote provisioning of entire fleets of devices, but still allowing to bypass the OS and offering DMA access to the CPU, so basically "#pwned")...

Either way, these are not inherent to the used #Silicon, but entirely #Firmware-based.

• AMT for example requires a "#Intel #vPro" configuration with Intel-made Ethernet NICs (i.e. i2xx & i3xx - Series) with a Q- or C-series Chipset & supporting #UEFI, so most Systems with cheap #Realtek-NICs aren't exploitable straight-away, and even then it requires certain settings to work, so not an easy "#Pwn2Own" style exploitability...

#apple and the golden cage:

Apple really doesn't like you to use hardware that is not from Apple. And it shows in the slightest to things like when you secured a NOTE with a password and you are logged in into your #icould account from a non-apple-device with all the security that apple offers but the note taking app online DOESN'T FUCKING ALLOW YOU TO ENTER YOUR PASSWORD TO UNLOCK THE STORED INFORMATION WHATSOEVER!!!!!! WHAT THE FUCK, APPLE!!!! THAT'S CRAP AND NOT SECURITY!!!!!!!! FUCK!!!!!!!!