text: Intel has responded by saying that "Intel does not put back doors in its products nor do our products give Intel control or access to computing systems without the explicit permission of the end user." and "Intel does not and will not design backdoors for access into its products. Recent reports claiming otherwise are misinformed and blatantly false. Intel does not participate in any efforts to decrease security of its technology." As of 2017 Google was attempting to eliminate proprietary firmware from its servers and found that the ME was a hurdle to that.