Money Quote:

> When contacted by Microsoft, Intel said the PLATINUM group wasn't using any vulnerability in the Intel AMT SOL interface, but this was another classic case of bad guys using a technology developed for legitimate purposes to do bad things.

Worst excuse ever. "Look guys, at least it's not a backdoor we left on purpose!!!"

m(

Are there any open hardware computers of comparable computing power?

How can the consumer stop someone from exploiting this hack?

[Remove Intel ME](https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner) to the largest extent possible. I don't know of equivalent tools for AMD, though, which also has similar systems in place.