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We knew about Echelon. We didn't know how bad the infiltration and implant stuff was, though. I mean, you just can't trust your computer any more. Even if it
by fit2rule 7y ago
We knew about Echelon. We didn't know how bad the infiltration and implant stuff was, though.
I mean, you just can't trust your computer any more. Even if its bought "brand new". NSA can put monitoring chips in it, mid-shipment.
That killed computing - and the Internet - for a lot of people, in my sphere.
- cmrdporcupine 7y agoI think we were all a bit naive in the 90s thinking that the sheer amount of data made each of us somewhat anonymous. The consequences of extremely cheap mass storage and very fast big data analytics didn't really sink in.
- ghostpepper 7y agoI've spent my holiday break this year learning about open firmware, coreboot, and the secret computer that lives in every computer known as the intel management engine. I hope we can get to a place where we can trust our hardware again, but Intel needs to allow ME to be completely disabled or we need to find a replacement for Intel chips (from what I gather AMD is not much better). My next computer will likely be from Purism (or even a Chromebook, they run open firmware)