Linus Torvalds was approached by the NSA to add a backdoor to Linux, obviously he refused. Now, given that we know that, do you honestly think companies like Microsoft, Google, and Apple would also refuse to do it? Bearing in mind that the Pentagon's cloud service contracts alone are worth about $9 billion, and if you refuse to play ball, you ain't getting in on that.
few years ago some Chinese spies tried to implant hardware backdoors on GPUs going into Amazon and Apple facilities.
Everything went under the radar because nobody wanted international war and sanctions, but yea most likely high profiled people are targeted while it's quite cheap to do it mass scale
On top of the Windows backdoors and zero day exploits they leave unpatched for the government, you have the hardware backdoors like IME and AMD Secure Technology (formally called Platform Security Processor). On top of that the UEFI bioses can easily contain backdoors and exploits, and then you have all the other chips in your PC that could potentially have a backdoor.
There's backdoors on backdoors on backdoors on backdoors.
There's further backdoors beneath IME and shit too. If you live in a western country and use hardware made by western companies it's backdoors and the NSA/FBI/CIA has all your shit
Microsoft operates the same way as Adobe/Autodesk, they create proprietary shitware with a brief shelflife meant to instill the need for subscription software. AI is gonna be shat up by Microsoft/NAI and Fortune 500 competitors all trying to become the Adobe/Autodesk of AI services. Corporations high on the layoff-automate pipeline are going to pay more in the future for their shortsightedness.
I'm not a super tech bro, but I recall somebody doing experiments on chips and discovering that secret undocumented instructions existed.
Also on /misc/ there was a leaker years ago who claimed to work for Intel and said that Intel had been building backdoors physically into their CPU's for the NSA for many years.
Just setup a strong firewall.
You want your computer hardware to be sourced from one provider. And your firewall hardware to be sourced from a direct concurrent.
They will cancel one another's effort at spying on you.
That's how small armies do it.
They don't bother disabling telemetry on Windows anymore, for example. They just block it at the firewall level.
They have one antivirus/antimalware from editor A on their workstation, and another anitmalware from editor B on their server.
If one editor fail, the other won't.
>"They (the NSA) can use the system to go back in time and scrutinize every decision you've ever made, every friend you've ever discussed something with, and attack you on that basis to sort of derive suspicion from an innocent life and paint anyone in the context of a wrongdoer."
—Edward Snowden
If they truly do have that capability, they've probably used it against high profile targets and at least blackmailed a few lower profile ones. They probably feel that presently the outrage would be inconvenient if they started blatantly attacking everyone over their private communications, but over time the culture of desiring privacy has been eroded and with the age of AI nearly upon us, we could see this system being sold as a "private" way to monitor everyone because no human looks at the contents, it's all a machine watching you and flagging "criminals and undesirables."
>Is spyware really built into hardware now?
No. there are neither verifiable proofs for that nor any evidence that something like this was ever used to target some individuals. Pic related is blackpilled, tech-illiterate /misc/ manlet who simply forgot to take his meds.
Facts. There's also no proof that Windows telemetry sends any sensitive data and that you can always trust the megacorps and governments to have your best interests at heart. Besides, it would be illegal for them to do anything with your data except maybe send targeted ads which you consented to so if you really think about it, everyone complaining about this is moronic.
Facts. There's also no proof that Windows telemetry sends any sensitive data and that you can always trust the megacorps and governments to have your best interests at heart. Besides, it would be illegal for them to do anything with your data except maybe send targeted ads which you consented to so if you really think about it, everyone complaining about this is moronic.
Yes, it is.
But that doesn't mean you should make their job easier by using proprietary shit/pozzed OS/etc.
They don't collect massive amounts of data (or commercial firewalls will notice/I'll notice on my router/etc) and that's great. Even better than israelitegle/Apple/Shitcrosoft. They will collect all the data, sell it and leak it to the glowies.
This thread is so fricking awful. It is possible IME etc is backdoored or just so shitty that it is easy to hack, but this means literally fricking nothing if the machine is off and you aren't using shitty ass fricking bitlocker or other TPM dependent stuff.
There never was escape since computers are just another cell in the prison.
Buy Chinese hardware if you want to be free from western spyware.
Buy American hardware if you want to be free from Chinese spyware.
This but unironically. You cant escape Anon. Welcome to hell
Is my Beelink taking photos of my meat and sending them to the CCP?
Intel shit
AMD actually, the only Intel ones Amazon was selling at the time were shitty little N100's
what about intel BLACK editions?
>now
lol
Do you have proof of any of that?
Linus Torvalds was approached by the NSA to add a backdoor to Linux, obviously he refused. Now, given that we know that, do you honestly think companies like Microsoft, Google, and Apple would also refuse to do it? Bearing in mind that the Pentagon's cloud service contracts alone are worth about $9 billion, and if you refuse to play ball, you ain't getting in on that.
The only source for this was a comment made by Linus that as obviously a joke and he later said it was a joke.
Of course some have taken it to mean that the joke was his way to tell.
Why would they bother asking him to do it when they could just submit a pull request with a cleverly hidden backdoor themselves?
Linux employees are smarter than you think.
Backdoor have been discovered in linux before
Wtf so even linux is compromised? This is fricked up
lurk moar
>now
Anon, I...
few years ago some Chinese spies tried to implant hardware backdoors on GPUs going into Amazon and Apple facilities.
Everything went under the radar because nobody wanted international war and sanctions, but yea most likely high profiled people are targeted while it's quite cheap to do it mass scale
https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-one-tiny-chinese-chip-was-used-to-infiltrate-apple-amazon-us-contractors-report/
On top of the Windows backdoors and zero day exploits they leave unpatched for the government, you have the hardware backdoors like IME and AMD Secure Technology (formally called Platform Security Processor). On top of that the UEFI bioses can easily contain backdoors and exploits, and then you have all the other chips in your PC that could potentially have a backdoor.
There's backdoors on backdoors on backdoors on backdoors.
There's further backdoors beneath IME and shit too. If you live in a western country and use hardware made by western companies it's backdoors and the NSA/FBI/CIA has all your shit
Just unplug the Ethernet cable
Also all NIST crypto is backdoored
Might anyone happen to know which board the screencap is from?
/v/
Microsoft operates the same way as Adobe/Autodesk, they create proprietary shitware with a brief shelflife meant to instill the need for subscription software. AI is gonna be shat up by Microsoft/NAI and Fortune 500 competitors all trying to become the Adobe/Autodesk of AI services. Corporations high on the layoff-automate pipeline are going to pay more in the future for their shortsightedness.
>now
I'm not a super tech bro, but I recall somebody doing experiments on chips and discovering that secret undocumented instructions existed.
Also on /misc/ there was a leaker years ago who claimed to work for Intel and said that Intel had been building backdoors physically into their CPU's for the NSA for many years.
>secret undocumented instructions
https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/6yk10g/hundreds_of_undocumented_32bit_cpu_instructions/
Is this not just the same as illegal opcodes?
probably.
intel x86 instruction encoding is fricking insane so you're bound to find some combo of invalid shit that will do "something."
No, that's just a misunderstanding of hidden management layers.
It's only true if you're targeted by TAO or another state actor. Everything else is schizo speculation
Just setup a strong firewall.
You want your computer hardware to be sourced from one provider. And your firewall hardware to be sourced from a direct concurrent.
They will cancel one another's effort at spying on you.
That's how small armies do it.
They don't bother disabling telemetry on Windows anymore, for example. They just block it at the firewall level.
They have one antivirus/antimalware from editor A on their workstation, and another anitmalware from editor B on their server.
If one editor fail, the other won't.
Source?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Platform_Security_Processor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine
>"They (the NSA) can use the system to go back in time and scrutinize every decision you've ever made, every friend you've ever discussed something with, and attack you on that basis to sort of derive suspicion from an innocent life and paint anyone in the context of a wrongdoer."
—Edward Snowden
Have they ever done it publicly?
If they truly do have that capability, they've probably used it against high profile targets and at least blackmailed a few lower profile ones. They probably feel that presently the outrage would be inconvenient if they started blatantly attacking everyone over their private communications, but over time the culture of desiring privacy has been eroded and with the age of AI nearly upon us, we could see this system being sold as a "private" way to monitor everyone because no human looks at the contents, it's all a machine watching you and flagging "criminals and undesirables."
I mean they don't even hide it anymore, it's "for security" sweetie.
>ms is evil
>water is wet
AIr GAP your computer. After you install your softawre, ripo out the wifi and ethernet
>now
sup, slowpoke?
>Is spyware really built into hardware now?
No. there are neither verifiable proofs for that nor any evidence that something like this was ever used to target some individuals. Pic related is blackpilled, tech-illiterate /misc/ manlet who simply forgot to take his meds.
to be fair, it's theoretical and we should be demanding FOSS firmware.
Facts. There's also no proof that Windows telemetry sends any sensitive data and that you can always trust the megacorps and governments to have your best interests at heart. Besides, it would be illegal for them to do anything with your data except maybe send targeted ads which you consented to so if you really think about it, everyone complaining about this is moronic.
What the frick.
Yes, it is.
But that doesn't mean you should make their job easier by using proprietary shit/pozzed OS/etc.
They don't collect massive amounts of data (or commercial firewalls will notice/I'll notice on my router/etc) and that's great. Even better than israelitegle/Apple/Shitcrosoft. They will collect all the data, sell it and leak it to the glowies.
This thread is so fricking awful. It is possible IME etc is backdoored or just so shitty that it is easy to hack, but this means literally fricking nothing if the machine is off and you aren't using shitty ass fricking bitlocker or other TPM dependent stuff.
>Is spyware really built into hardware now? Is there really no escape anymore?
everyone's been saying this since forever
pic rel
is this you op?