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by turblety 9y ago
Do they all have direct access to every other device, memory and hard drive connected to your computer. Genuine question, I'm not sure but I would have thought they have to go through the main processor to access those devices. However
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Also remember while a case can be made (although in my opinion a very weak one) for why you need a separate computer running beside your main processor, the main issue people have is that you: - Can not see what that operating system is doi
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by turblety 9y ago
Apologies I have edited my post to explain Intel have the same likely backdoored system too.
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by turblety 9y ago
Unfortunately anyone who takes their security or privacy seriously will be totally unable to use this. Every AMD chip contains a likely backdoored system called AMD Secure Processor (formerly “Platform Security Processor” or “PSP”) [1]. Thi
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by turblety 9y ago
Another petition rejected (although I do understand it was somewhat in jest). I do wonder what the point of these petitions are if the government basically refuses to act on any of them [1]. I guess it's nice because parliament debates
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by turblety 9y ago
I wouldn't say they "campaigned" against it. Wasn't one of the biggest issues people had with Brexit was the complete lack of information and opinions from the government on how they should vote. If anything the governme
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by turblety 9y ago
One thing we're learning is that the UK government can do whatever it wants. Who is going to stop it breaking it's own laws? The UK people have been educated in an obedience system (where they actually all wear a uniform) and are
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by turblety 9y ago
Yeah you're right. Basically my concern is having backdoors written into driver firmware that can not be removed. For example Intel's ME [1], AMD's PSP [2], Samsung's BL1 bootloader, etc. For me personally I don't m
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by turblety 9y ago
So impressed with Purism's hard work and ethics. I'm so glad it looks like this will reach it's funding goal. I'm very surprised that the phone will have an open GPU. I've been looking for a laptop replacement for a
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by turblety 9y ago
> Prostitution has always existed and will continue to exist for as long as one needs money to buy food. Agreed. So let's give them the same legal protections we give every other person.
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by turblety 9y ago
> Can I put drugs in it? Kill myself? Decide when is fetus is/ins't "my" body? Yes, Yes and Yes. It is your body and my personal moral compass tells me it is absolutely wrong to tell another person what they can or ca
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by turblety 9y ago
Yes I read the article and shouldn't the government then focus more time on providing emotional support for adults who were abused as children rather than criminalising an industry because one person (or even a group of people) are in
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by turblety 9y ago
Everyone must have the complete right to do what they want with their own body, so long as they are not hurting anyone else. No person (especially government) should ever be telling you what you can and can't do with your body. But let
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by turblety 9y ago
Exactly this. Could not have said it better myself. Even trying to sort this stuff out properly could cost your department millions of pounds due to bureaucracy and incompetent management.
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by turblety 9y ago
Ahh thanks, sorry was getting confused. It's AMD's PSP that uses an ARM based spyware kit. I wonder what Intel ME actually runs on then. Probably just another Intel Chip?
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by turblety 9y ago
No. Basically the Intel ME is a completely separate ARM processor that's physically stuck onto each Intel Processor. It has direct access to everything the Intel chip does. The memory it's allocating, the hardware commands (ie key
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by turblety 9y ago
Why should a serious backdoor, privacy concerns and ethical problems with a monopolies new product not be discussed in a thread about that product? Not sure I get your point on that. But yeah you are totally right on the alternatives. Nothi
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by turblety 9y ago
Have a look at https://minifree.org/ and a few Chromebooks (obviously with the operating system replaced). There are some options, but yeah it's a big problem that the microprocessor market has been locked up by two mo
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by turblety 9y ago
The issue I have is companies like Google and Puri.sm have asked Intel and AMD for a blank signed blob that completely disables ME but they have refused this. It would take them literally no time at all. This raises all sorts of red flags t
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by turblety 9y ago
There was this floating around a while ago: https://i.redd.it/id88hvysu3ny.png
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by turblety 9y ago
I wonder if this one will come with free backdoors and spyware installed, thanks to the wonderful Intel Management Engine (Intel ME) backdoor. [1][2][3] Intel (and AMT) keep pushing more and more proprietary code that can not be read, chang
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by turblety 9y ago
Yeah, specifically outside of the US. Many times I've nearly bought one from puri.sm but as they're based in America I'd say there's a very high percentage any of those computers leaving the country will get spyware adde
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PRIVAT – The world's most secure smartphone(indiegogo.com)
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by turblety 9y ago
Yeah it's pretty bad, but don't feel alone. Our PM is just as incompetent: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/new...
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by turblety 9y ago
Decentralization and auditing. If you put some code on AWS there are two potential issues. Firstly you don't know if AWS has actually run your code. They could potentially replace your code with their own modified version which does so
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by turblety 9y ago
Sorry, my mistake. I should take better care of my writing. I should have written AMD instead of AMT. I cannot edit my post. AMT is the poorly written and proprietary firmware Active Management Technology. This allows you to remotely contro
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by turblety 9y ago
But once again they have included a second "processor" on each chip with a bunch of restricted backdoors that can not be removed [1]. There have already been bugs [2] and exploits [3] found and therefore no Intel or AMD chip can b
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by turblety 9y ago
The UK government is working on it's own Internet [1]. It's going to really take off and be the next big thing!! No encryption too, so it's nice and safe from all those terrorists. Can't wait!! [1] http://www.
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by turblety 9y ago
Makes me happy the OP didn't have Flash installed. Fingers crossed they didn't install it just to see the site.
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by turblety 9y ago
Hopefully this is true. Though we really don't know what all the components in the Intel ME can do. They might be able to remotely update all chips so long as they have connected to a network that still exists. But I think (hope) this

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