I am fucking scared of the mass surveilence nightmare direction that the internet and the world as a whole is going towards… C2PA, france hacking itself into citizen phones, the UK anti encryption law, EU’s chat control, etc. Im also sick of and hate the “you will own nothing and be happy” mentality that corpos try to push. I dont wanna know how the world will look like in 5-10 years.

      • TWeaK@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        Even phones have security chips in them these days.

        Fun fact: Intel introduced the Management Engine right around the time they joined the NSA’s PRISM program.

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      1 year ago

      I feel like the management engine card is sneakily changing the threat model in the middle of the conversation.

      Is it bad? Yes. Is it a big source of security holes? Absolutely.

      Is it a way that Facebook is going to profile you to try and sell you to advertisers? Or a reason why you can’t ditch Windows? No.

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        1 year ago

        What does ditching windows have to do with security chips? OS sits above the hardware so that does not make sense. Any linux distro is just as susceptible as it stands.

        No ones worried about social media companies messing with your hardware (not yet). That’s off-topic. Besides, legally nothing stops Intel or AMD from just selling the harvested data to Fb or whoever so that point is kind of moot too.