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This is my shocked face ๐ฅฑ
How about we just list all of the imperial tech giants which don't have backdoors and who don't spy on users of their products.
So many privacy-focused tech-people have focused on software only, because its at least somewhere that they can make a positive contribution, but in all likelihood, something we can't mess with, the hardware, has backdoors and spying. Everything from CPUs, radios, and even hard drives likely have backdoors.
There's pretty much no way around that until we get competing non-western-owned hardware industries, which rn, only china and india are attempting.
@muad_dibber @knfrmity I think this statement does not apply to open source firmware. Where could the malware hide if everything is open?
In a hidden, 2nd level of firmware ;) . Open source firmware is nice, but there aren't many companies who put it out in the open, and not many people with the level of technical expertise required of low-level hardware engineers to create it.
@muad_dibber Lately, I saw a broader adoption of open source practices. One big example being:
https://www.techspot.com/news/98604-amd-planning-replace-agesa-firmware-open-source-alternative.html