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Reading into the history of Secure Boot. Discovered Intel and AMD processors have back doors via Intel Management Engine [1] and AMD Platform Security Processor [2]. Both are closed source and have had a number of vulnerabilities over the years. They are essentially backdoors.

Seems disabling these "features" is nearly impossible as well.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Platform_Security_Proces...



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