I meant, finding a backdoor in its full form on the main system would be a much more significant find, and its impact and newsworthiness is greater than any hypothetical or baseless speculations, such as Bloomberg's BMC affair.

The impact of the BMC affair, if true, is showing real evidence and real demonstration that such an attack has happened, has been used in the wild, rather than showing that the attack is possible (we all know). Unfortunately, bad journalism at work.

P.S: I'm not saying that the ME subsystem, or buggy speculation (pun not intended) isn't a threat, just to make a point.

> I'd be pretty concerned about ME bugs and backdoors disguised as ME bugs.

Same consequences. I'd say they're effectively the same thing.