[Jach]

Totally agree. And these "maybe they are backdoors" have not actually been demonstrated in the wild yet (apart from Intel's AMT that most people don't have to worry about). If you want to fearmonger, at least do it with demonstrated issues not just "maybes". So a much bigger security issue is buying a laptop from anyone at all at this point that isn't a Mac or a Surface, i.e. directly from the OS vendor. Lenovo does shit like this: http://www.zdnet.com/article/lenovo-rootkit-ensured-its-soft... (which also references the earlier Superfish shit they pulled). Sony has done shit like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk... Dell et al: http://www.zdnet.com/article/researchers-find-insecure-bios-...