I hope China keeps pushing in domestic chip production id love to be able to buy a laptop with hardware fully made in mainland china and stick linux on it.
this post was submitted on 27 Oct 2024
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'threatens national security'
Didn't Intel or some other company suggest a separate 'core' in new CPUs that's hardware level connected to the internet sending telemetry data some time ago?
The intel management engine and amd equivalent are already claimed to be backdoors. Hard to say for sure but we already know IME has/had multiple vulnerabilities, and is on when your computer is connected to power even if its turned off.
Waiter! Waiter! More spyware please!!
Ya the media is just being intentionally obtuse. "Well we arent sure what silly China is talking about. Back doors ppssshhh ya right."
This is echoed by OS developers and maintainers as well:
Honestly, I'm pretty damn fed up with buggy hardware and completely theoretical attacks that have never actually shown themselves to be used in practice. So I think this time we push back on the hardware people and tell them it's THEIR damn problem, and if they can't even be bothered to say yay-or-nay, we just sit tight.
Because dammit, let's put the onus on where the blame lies, and not just take any random "...." from bad hardware and say "oh, but it might be a problem".
lol