I am fucking scared of the mass surveilence nightmare direction that the internet and the world as a whole is going towards… C2PA, france hacking itself into citizen phones, the UK anti encryption law, EU’s chat control, etc. Im also sick of and hate the “you will own nothing and be happy” mentality that corpos try to push. I dont wanna know how the world will look like in 5-10 years.

      • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Even phones have security chips in them these days.

        Fun fact: Intel introduced the Management Engine right around the time they joined the NSA’s PRISM program.

        • planish@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          1 year ago

          A “security chip” is just any trusted hardware secure element that is tamper-proof and holds a manufacturer key, right?

          Some implentations are going to have that as an available peripheral, and some are going to have it as in charge of the whole system, and one of those setups is fine.

          Or I suppose it is fine until a lot of people actually use it. Then it starts to become a problem for people who don’t feel like consenting to putting on whatever handcuffs people want to use the system to know that they are wearing.

    • planish@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I feel like the management engine card is sneakily changing the threat model in the middle of the conversation.

      Is it bad? Yes. Is it a big source of security holes? Absolutely.

      Is it a way that Facebook is going to profile you to try and sell you to advertisers? Or a reason why you can’t ditch Windows? No.