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How about we just list all of the imperial tech giants which don't have backdoors and who don't spy on users of their products.
this post was submitted on 17 May 2023
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So many privacy-focused tech-people have focused on software only, because its at least somewhere that they can make a positive contribution, but in all likelihood, something we can't mess with, the hardware, has backdoors and spying. Everything from CPUs, radios, and even hard drives likely have backdoors.
There's pretty much no way around that until we get competing non-western-owned hardware industries, which rn, only china and india are attempting.
@muad_dibber @knfrmity I think this statement does not apply to open source firmware. Where could the malware hide if everything is open?
In a hidden, 2nd level of firmware ;) . Open source firmware is nice, but there aren't many companies who put it out in the open, and not many people with the level of technical expertise required of low-level hardware engineers to create it.
@muad_dibber Lately, I saw a broader adoption of open source practices. One big example being:
https://www.techspot.com/news/98604-amd-planning-replace-agesa-firmware-open-source-alternative.html
Who would've thought..
are there archive pages for cgtn or other such domains? I'm not sure if because behind the office firewall, but I can't read the contents, just the titles, :( Perhaps both URLs, the original one, plus sort of an archive one...
There is an archived page: https://archive.is/CpRi0
Even behind a firewall you should be able to look up and archive a page via archive.today or a similar service.
It could well be that your work firewall blocks Chinese and Russian content... It's becoming ever more commonplace and even celebrated.
The archive URL shared worked fine, thanks !
Btw you can archive a website even if it's blocked by your ISP/employer
Is this the equivalent of Intel management engine?
No, IME is a proprietary subchip that has access to what your CPU is doing and virtually never turns off. IME is basically a full backdoor. Qualcomm is doing insecure telemetry that violates GDPR, but it's not a backdoor.
similar sort of thing from the sound of it
I wonder if Mediatek is any better. They're the biggest competition that Qualcomm has right now (except for maybe Samsung's Exynos), but honestly, I wouldn't be shocked if everyone's doing this.
It's almost certain that all telecom companies do this.
hell at&t was secretly splitting fiber to siphon all traffic on their backbone to the nsa back in like 2005 .. if they're going to those lengths you can be sure they're considering all the other avenues as well
basically if you want to do something privately then don't use a computer