Originally Posted By: mlord
... the rootkits that Intel has been installing in just about every x86 processor for the past 10 years or so. You know, that fancy little feature "for data centre admins", to automatically power on, update, intercept KB/Mouse/Net, etc.

Perfectly safe of course. Really.
I must admit ignorance of this. Is it outside the perimeter of the motherboard bios/firmware, implemented in the Intel Ethernet chipset?

Does this exposure also exist in Mac computers?