What we know about the new Intel ME vulnerabilities and their potential impact: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/49611.html
Yes that mildly benefits the user in the case where the user is renting someone else's computer (aka cloud), but there are plenty of other ways the cloud provider can still deceive you.
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In the opposite case, where it's your personal computer and you're not "renting it as general-purpose computing" but trying to do your work with third-party sw/service, it's devastating to your privacy & control.
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"renting it OUT to others as general-purpose computing", that is.
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