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Is management engine not on all modern intel chips, but comes disabled requiring it to be set up in the BIOS?

AMD have something similar to this, and there was some mentioning of this in an ama on reddit here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/5x4hxu/we_are_amd_crea...

What are the reasons for having this, I mean good business reasons? I get that designing cpus is expensive and they reuse as much they can, and that businesses would want the benefits or remote management. However when weighed up against the damage to trust in a company is it worth it enough that they do not offer a line of chips that do not have this pseudo back door present?

Not the person you were replying to but I would really want to read this, do you have a link?

edit

I think i may have found it, is it this https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/5x4hxu/we_are_amd_crea...

I don't think that is practical without invasive surgery. Afaik the best we can do with external monitoring is roughly tell whether a person is trying to move or thinking about moving. Reading thoughts doesn't seem realistic with current technology.