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I would not go that far saying I won't buy AMD ever again, but if Microsoft has a foot in the door inside my systems in form of creepware like Pluton it is ther
by dschuetz 4y ago
I would not go that far saying I won't buy AMD ever again, but if Microsoft has a foot in the door inside my systems in form of creepware like Pluton it is there for keeping the door open.
- anonym29 4y agoI edited to clarify. I would consider using them on a system that never gets connected to the internet.
- adrian_b 4y agoI am also paranoiac about such things, but the part with avoiding the connection to the Internet is easy for a desktop computer, if it also does not run Windows, where you never know what services might be active and with which external servers they might try to communicate. I have a small computer that is used as the router for the Internet connection and on which I have complete control over the firewall and over the proxies used for connecting to the Internet, so there are no chances for an unwanted connection to the Internet. For additional protection, one could run the Internet browsers in a Virtual Machine, to be absolutely certain that there is no way for a script run by the browser to access the physical hardware, assuming that you do not trust the sandboxing capabilities of the browser.
- anonym29 4y agoVMs are an imperfect solution to preventing programs running in the guest OS from affecting the host OS (imperfect, as VM escapes are a thing). VMs do not provide protection to the guest OS (or it's processes) from inspection and snooping by the host OS, or from inspection / snooping by the hardware the host OS is running on. If using a bare metal hypervisor, sed 's/host OS/hypervisor/g'