[Cieplak]

Clearly there’s demand for an Intel product with these features absent from the platform controller hub.

I acknowledge that hardware products take years to develop, and they already have a lot on their plate.

Perhaps Intel doesn’t care about consumer whims, but clearly there’s demand from companies like Google.

I’m just generally surprised at the lack of public-facing responses from Intel’s leadership around this and other security issues facing their platform. It all reads like lawyers trying to minimize their liability.

They’re one of the most important technology platforms today. Everything besides cellphones runs on Intel.

Despite actually being a monopoly or duopoly, they don’t have to be so stodgy. I want to love them for their profound impact these past few decades, but it’s hard when it feels like they don’t listen to their customers.

[yvdriess]

The remote access features are probably removed or disabled via microcode changes. As Purism referred to sourcing recent CPUs without vPro, they are either directly or indirectly getting those kind of vPro-disabled variants.