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Barring an extremely risky, one-off backdoor in the management engine or your board or device firmware; there should be no reason why your hard disk, GPU, board
by microcolonel 7y ago
Barring an extremely risky, one-off backdoor in the management engine or your board or device firmware; there should be no reason why your hard disk, GPU, board, memory, and NIC UUIDs (MACs are configurable, and random by default in NetworkManager and some other network configuration systems) are available to third parties on a regular basis, unless you put software on your computer to make that happen.
Don't run spyware on purpose.
- solarkraft 7y ago> unless you put software on your computer to make that happen Couldn't that be ... any software?
- microcolonel 7y agoWell, you could start by not installing software that you know exfiltrates these data, like Microsoft Windows, or Adobe Flash...
- solarkraft 7y agoEven in free software, do you audit everything you install? Information security is only as strong as the weakest link.
- microcolonel 7y agoWhy not start with software which isn't known to deliberately disseminate information about your computer. Sure, if you move the goalposts all day, you'll never score.