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by turblety 9y ago
Me and a bunch of IT colleagues are all planning to leave and goto Europe once this and the Brexit stuff happens. The UK's going to be left with a bunch of uneducated, old fashioned, racist and obedient zombies. So don't worry, th
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by turblety 9y ago
Just to let you know in the UK we'll all be safe from things like this. The UK's banning encryption so stuff like this won't happen in the future. Phew. I feel safer!
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by turblety 9y ago
The problem is even if the interface says it's not activated, can you believe it's not activated? When you have closed source software running on a separate chip you have no control over you can never be 100% sure of what it does.
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by turblety 9y ago
Aren't they all very similar though? "Trust us, we know what's best for you and as long as we all pool together we can be one big team that has everyones best interests at heart. Oh wait, we just need watch you take a shit ev
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by turblety 9y ago
Yes, agreed and I stand corrected. However, I think I was trying to make a different point, although failed in my writing. A big reason policies like this get passed, without protest, is because the people of the UK trust the government to
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by turblety 9y ago
It's also quite sad that a big majority of the country is ambivalent of this. Despite having access to this news, many still feel this is okay. Why are people not outside parliament protesting? Why are there no big campaign/organi
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by turblety 9y ago
I think the title's wrong here. This is North Korea implementing the policy, right? Not the UK? All sarcasm aside, this is horrendous. But let's not pretend this is to curb "terrorism", for whatever that means. It's
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by turblety 9y ago
That sounds awesome!! Where do you buy them? When I click Buy Now on IBM it just takes me to a contact form :( Do you know any shop that sells them retail? Edit: Ahh okay I see. The higher end ones need you to call IBM, but I think you can
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by turblety 9y ago
Hey Michael, that's pretty amazing you have audited an encrypted and closed source binary from Intel to discover each Intel chip doesn't listen for an exploit payload. Would you mind sharing the keys you used to decrypt the firmwa
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by turblety 9y ago
I wonder if allowing other people to contribute to open sourced firmware could lead to different features that could help kernels like Linux. At the minute the only features we can have in the firmware of Intel and AMD chips are what featur
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by turblety 9y ago
Yeah you'd be surprised though, more and more people do care about this stuff. The Snowden and Wikileaks leaks are working, and are educating more and more people to these issues. But I do get your point, at this stage it's still
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by turblety 9y ago
Yeah I'm in. Just let me buy the darn thing :P I was so excited for the Talos Secure Workstation but then it was underfunded on it's campaign. I think I saw some OpenPOWER machines on IBM's website, but all the distributors h
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by turblety 9y ago
Yeah, basically the first of Intel or AMD to remove all unremovable closed source magic that has root access to your entire system, could become the dominant player for years.
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by turblety 9y ago
Depending on your requirements you could have a look at the ODROID ( http://www.hardkernel.com/main/main.php ).
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Preventing AMI’s BiOS from interfering with coreboot flashing on the Librem 13(puri.sm)
105 points by turblety 10y ago|10 comments
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by turblety 10y ago
@filoleg unfortunately you are wrong. AMD has equally invasive technology called PSP (Platform Security Processor). "The PSP is a universal computer with it's own CPU, RAM, ROM, clock etc, that can run whatever software AMD wants
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by turblety 10y ago
Yeah using PAVP "Protected Audio/Video Path". Basically there are chunks of memory that are only accessible to the Management Engine. (Note at this point it doesn't work in reverse, there is no memory that is not accessi
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by turblety 10y ago
Already you have restrictive software/firmware running on your computer. Look into Intel ME (Management Engine) a likely backdoor into your computer you have no control over, don't know what it does, and can not disable it. It alr
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by turblety 10y ago
This! As soon as I try to scroll on a site and it overrides my browsers method I'm gone. There's no excuse. It's not necessary and just frustrates users.
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by turblety 10y ago
We've know about this for years though. Libreboot, Coreboot and even Google have begged Intel and AMD to provide chips without backdoors installed and they have refused. Google has asked for their Chromebook's and obviously offere
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by turblety 10y ago
Me too. If you want to spam or hack surely you'd just outsource the captcha solving to a cheaper country. Or even sites like 2captcha that give you 1000 solves for around 50c. You can still make a robot but just send the captcha to a s
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by turblety 10y ago
The problem is, there are loads of democracies. And they are democratic. Their people get to vote. But when the vast majority of the population of these democracies don't understand basic politics, economy and philosophy how can they v
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by turblety 10y ago
I've definitely noticed of a lot of these companies that shutdown/close their doors, that it takes a long time to understand what they actually did/do. A businesses front page should explain what they do to the lay person. Ev
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by turblety 10y ago
Obviously the most important question though. Will it work in IE8? *sarcasm intended, with some unfortunate seriousness
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by turblety 10y ago
But I think the point is the user should decide if they want this bloat not Microsoft. I agree I would never use kaspersky or norton or any other system like this, but there are people who do want to use them. It's the individuals choi
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by turblety 10y ago
I think that the unfortunate truth (well IMO) is that if you want security and/or privacy then Microsoft is not the company for you. They have shown many times to be in bed with the NSA ( http://techrights.org/wiki/
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What if you invested instead(investedinstead.com)
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by turblety 10y ago
I do agree this is ridiculous and they should be embarrassed about this kind of stuff, but I do want to remind people that Facebook is an advertising product selling "you" to advertisers. They have to please their advertisers, not
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by turblety 10y ago
Maybe not a mobile phone producer, but certainly YouTube has morals at least the same as, if not lower than Samsung. We really need to fight these censorship issues before it's too late.
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by turblety 10y ago
By uploading a parody video of a Samsung Galaxy exploding, I don't understand how there is a law being broken? Can someone explain how this is a copyright issue?

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