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"deepest, darkest realms of the processor..." is it the ME? https://recon.cx/2014/slides/Recon%202014%20Skochinsky.pdf

ME is in the chipset and it's much newer than 20 years.

It's kind of scary that there's a micro-JVM on my chipset that allows new code to be loaded in to such a privileged system dynamically.

Makes me think of this guy who managed to install linux on his hard drive: https://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack&page=7