On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 5:21 AM, Ryan Carboni <ryacko@gmail.com> wrote:

keep in mind, just how many computers run Intel. We don't backdoor encryption. We backdoor everything.

The back door is a feature, not a bug, right?

For instance, this company is quite proud of their back door technology, and are openly selling access to it: https://www.absolute.com/en/about/persistence

Persistence is the only technology that keeps you in complete command with a self-healing, two-way connection to any endpoint or application — even if they are off the network. It’s a fundamentally new approach to security, leveraging our privileged position embedded in the firmware of billions of endpoints.

According to their knowledgeable and courteous salesman, whom I once chanced to meet, use cases for the back door include locating and recovering stolen corporate laptops.