@nprofile1q... It has been 50 years since I wrote or cared to write all the bits of an entire machine. I work today at deepest level I am willing to go to. It is enough for me. In my youth I wrote everything starting with raw hek. Now I have other things to do. And I certainly don't think that unless we go all the way to machine code that it is pointless to bother at all. That would be horrific learned helplessness.

I do not agree there is that strong evidence of BIOS backdoors to worry about. I eliminating the ISP shipped components except for the modem itself.

I think the remote management scare is a bit overplayed as it is not workable without hardware access on most machines as shipped in my understanding. .