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Here's hoping. Intel did a great job hiding the thing and making it all but impossible to remove (at present if you nuke the firmware, the CPU will totally fail
by gargravarr 9y ago
Here's hoping. Intel did a great job hiding the thing and making it all but impossible to remove (at present if you nuke the firmware, the CPU will totally fail to initialise. Thanks Intel!). That said, we're talking about an embedded device with very low-level code, and any 'disabling' code is probably going to be distributed in binary form. Stands to reason somewhere along the lines, someone is going to turn that around for their own benefit.
In tin-foil hats, we trust, more like!
- arca_vorago 9y agoI just get tired of being ridiculed and then 10 years later vindicated. In Faraday cages we trust.
- gargravarr 9y ago2013 was the greatest 'WE TOLD YOU SO' in history for the tin-foil-hat brigade...
- raverbashing 9y agoWhy 2013 specifically?
- cyphar 9y agoPresumably because of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden#Publication https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden#Publication
- gargravarr 9y agoYep, this exactly.
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- bobby_the_whale 9y agohttp://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2015/sep/15/are-faraday-cages-less-effective-than-previously-thought http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2015/sep/15/are-far... Have a nice day.
- sametmax 9y agoYou'd think after being right again and again people would start to trust you. Or at least distrust entity that have a track record of behaving badly. And yet...
- jlgaddis 9y agoImagine how Stallman feels.
- milcron 9y agoThere's a whole subreddit dedicated to this https://www.reddit.com/r/StallmanWasRight/ https://www.reddit.com/r/StallmanWasRight/