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Re:An in-depth security review of the Intel Management Engine by avocad on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @12:02PM (#15749352)
This reminded me of the famous lecture by Ken Thompson, Reflections on Trusting Trust:

https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomp...

Basically you have to trust the compiler because it compiles all code on your system, including itself. Not entirely the same, and I think the Intel trick is more nefarious.

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