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Maybe I'm interpreting this comment incorrectly but I'm begging people to realize if they're a normal person and they have the NSA at the top of their threat mo
by xxpor 4y ago
Maybe I'm interpreting this comment incorrectly but I'm begging people to realize if they're a normal person and they have the NSA at the top of their threat model they're bad at internalizing relative risk.
- anonym29 4y agoYou do appear to be interpreting it incorrectly. This is about Pluton, for which the threat actor is Microsoft. People concerned about the NSA would need to be worried going all the way back to the introduction of AMD PSP back in 2011. Now, with regards to the important part of your message, I'm begging people to realize that if they're blindly trusting all code running on all firmware in their personal machine, they are even worse at accurately internalizing risk than those who are proactively paranoid.
- xxpor 4y agoI would argue not trusting MS is even sillier. Like it or not, they run most desktops around the world. Even if you only run the purest NetBSD at home, nearly everything someone knows about you will touch Windows at some point. In terms of secureboot et al, MS hasn't done any of the shenanigans people were worried about. You can still turn off SB on every x86 desktop. What is the actual risk here? At the end of the day, MS isn't the government. Raptor Systems is right there for the truly paranoid.
- anonym29 4y agoYou're right that MS isn't the government - they have fewer restrictions on behavior than government does, and a financial incentive to snoop on people the government doesn't care about. If you're aware of the risks, you do you, just don't kid yourself into thinking the third most valuable company on the planet is diligently concerned with protecting your privacy and putting your interests above their own.