You can even buy a new hard drive and flash your BIOS, it will install itself again
threatpost.com
kaspersky.com
Toshiba: all of these model families have it: absolute.com
Lenovo model families: absolute.com
Dell: absolute.com
Acer: absolute.com
Asus: absolute.com
HP: absolute.com
etc, etc, etc, the list goes on
Even if your model family is not listed, you probably have the backdoor anyway, like in my case
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How to Disable the CompuTrace Laptop BIOS on a Toshiba?
CompuTrace is tracking software, developed by Absolute, that allows you to recover and restore missing or stolen computer systems. Some Toshiba laptops come with this application. You cannot manually remove CompuTrace from your Toshiba laptop; instead, contact Absolute HelpDesk for the removal process. Use an administrative account to perform this task.
Instructions
1 - Locate the serial number of your Toshiba laptop at the bottom of your laptop. It will say “Serial No” followed by the actual serial number, which is a combination of letters and numbers. Write down the serial number on a piece of paper.
2 - Navigate to “CompuTrace Support” webpage (see Resources). Click the “Click here” link under “Log in to your account.”
3 - Use your Absolute username and password and click “Login.” This opens a request form.
4 - Type “CompuTrace removal” in the provided box for the request form. Type the serial number of your computer in the corresponding field. Also, provide your email address. Click the “Submit” button.
5 - Wait for a confirmation email from Absolute. It notes that your request has been processed.
6 - Connect your Toshiba laptop to the Internet.
Once you do this, Absolute automatically removes CompuTrace from your laptop.
This has been happening for more than 10 years, yet nobody talks about it
Antivirus are not able to remove it
>absolute.com
Hmmm, my 2005 HP laptop with Windows XP doesn't have it, but you can walk through XP without a backdoor from what I've heard LOL.
Not being on the list doesn't mean anything. My Toshiba is not on the list and look, I have the backdoor for 4 years. I've formated the computer 2 times meanwhile and I've got the most recent BIOS driver.
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Fuck ASUS has it too?
Explain to me why reformatting the HDD wouldn't erase CompuTrace?
Because it's in the BIOS and not in the HDD.
i dont understand
how can you have BIOS without a hard drive
The BIOS is contained on a chip on the motherboard.
How do you know if you've got this on your pc?
why not just flash the chip?
do you really believe CompuTrace is going to just uninstall itself?
No, it will install itself again.
>>what is internal onboard memory
how can it install itself if you flash the chip you utter retard
>"""removed"""
you mean flagged as disabled and (((Absolute))) could reenable it as they wish
this, thread sounds like elaborate shilling to trick you into thinking you're privacy is secured
Guys don't listen to this Soviet propaganda!!!! Trust our patriotic American Intelligence Agencies!!!
Unless you delete the kernel module and force flash with a chip reader, it won't truly be gone but there are other holes evil maids can exploit in the firmware too.
It doesn't matter, most manufacturers have boot guards now that will flash stock bios if you attempt to mod it yourself.
I sell exploits, I know things, but am under NDA because shekels
Bios module, not kernel module. Need moar coffee
Also, non Windows OSes aren't affected, they only bundle a dll injector and can only read/write unencrypted NTFS
>mfw not affected
it download itself from the internet, similar to the intel management engine backdoor that has its own networking capabilities
>there are other holes evil maids can exploit in the firmware too
go on...
>but am under NDA
shouldn't have said anything faggot, no one would know
>muh NDA
because it makes you sound cooler.....
Gotta pay shekelburg somehow.
Intel ME has non-malicious variants, any laptops that are not vPro and don't have AMT included use the ME partition to control the fan speed, and don't typically inlude a network stack. You can check using the Intel ME image tools on bios-mods forums. Using a non Intel NIC also cripples them.
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White conservatives are so absolutely fucked. Traitors in the government and foreign agents and Jews. It's so obvious they're building a Red List for their Neo-Bolshevik revolution, they're collecting this intel on us for another mass killing. They own every industry and institution and other white males are helping them in this agenda.
Meanwhile conservative whites are sitting around with their thumbs up their asses, rare to make more than a measly 200k a year.
what about AMD and ARM chips?
what about tinker boards?
Jokes on them if they look at my shit posting folder & porn files
Based on the screenshot, I'd say download Eset for a free trial and scan.
Yes. Well I'll be the first one to point them towards the "lolercaust" as well as "headlessmexicans" folders. They are a blast.
AMD has their own implementation, which can arguably be turned off, but it's actually an onboard ARM core embedded on your CPU. Some ARM do some don't. The i.MX 6 and 8 do not, for example. The 8 will be used in the Puri.sm Librem 5 phone.
Their laptops have IME removed.
Not sure on tinkerboard.
You still have Spectre and Meltdown, but POWER9 chips like the talos workstation use coreboot and have no remote management.
Was this meant to be a "feature"?
I should mention that the hacking team leak a few years back included an implant for some bios brands that would behave like computrace, only instead spying on you for a 3rd party.
It's basically a backdoor disguised as a feature.
so If I'm running Ubuntu, the NSA can't look at my shit, rigth?
Wrong.
Please stop talking about Raptors. Good news spreads quick the less that know the better.
Can't we fucking magnets?
If you ever wondered how the NSA can do "optic nerve" and audio hacks, it's this on laptops and the baseband on phones sharing memory with the CPU.
Even Linux is probably succeptible to the audio and video spying on these, despite the filesystem on these oses preventing fuckery at the OS level, by and large.
Everything is awful and everyone is fucked if they're interesting enough. Computer security is great because there will never be a shortage of money making holes to plug because all hardware is shit, security wise.
The speculative execution vulnerability has existed since 1995. Israel put IDs on the CPUs over a decade ago. They continue to say there are vulnerabilities and require performance-killing patches so you’ll buy new CPUs.
Honestly who the fuck even cares? Are you really concerned that somebody is going to remotely compromise your anime porn collection?
The only ones who need be concerned are some businesses like cardholder services and of course those patriotic heroes who may be out there planning an actual real legit holocaust of all of the jews.
Apple Master Race
Stupid nerds!
this is why you should be concerned, they are identifying people
You're just as rapeable if not moreso, with your $3000 facebook machine and $1000+ plus tracking device.
How much do you want to bet that glowniggers had something to do with this one too?
Basically everyone is screwed if the alphabets want you. Just blend in as much as you can, don't be a terrorist, and practice good opsec.
I hate backdoors like this and firmware/hardware vulnerabilities like with Intel, whether intentional (which can be abused by hackers) or unintentional (stupid).
>Whats a BIOS
Your obviously new here kid so I will explain what BIOS means
>B - Be over the age of 18 to post here
>I - If you have nothing of value to add, shut the fuck up
>O - Outside of Jow Forums theres plenty of places to find out this information instead of shitting up my board with your faggot questions
>S - Shut the fuck up kiddo, adults are talking
Your welcome
Kek
>your
Argument invalid BTFO
I don't think they need a back door to identify us. The ISPs will throw us to the jewish wolves and probably already have
This
Is it true they can use the fan speed to communicate to other devices?
I've also heard things like you shouldn't use same keyboard/monitor/mouse on your private machine since it will easily tie you to your compromised machine
Lol fuck you
There's ways around that. What you have to worry about is hardware and anything that can tie your private machine to your compromised one.
Here's a tinker board with the MX6
digi.com
Youre loss friendo
You don't have to worry a lot about that unless you let other people near your devices or have an airgap machine somewhere, where between walls even someone could snoop. It is a huge pain to do any of that stuff and so far it only happens in labs most of the time.
The i.MX chips are safe, according to Puri.sm
I'm running Kubuntu Linux on a Thinkpad T520. Is there anyway to remove this shit or am I fucked?
Unless you're Julian Assange you shouldn't worry about that. It's telemetry/spying by corporations and vulnerabilities which hackers/criminals can exploit which should concern you.
HOLY SHIT ETERNAL GOD TEIR BTFO
Such bants are seen only among the elder gods upon Olympus.
Good thing I dont use computrace, fuckhead
Do not worry Anons.
This free Toshiba i shitpost from has more viruses
then I care to fix. Let me go first & take one for the team .
Yes goy, dont worry about that.
No, I am worried. I don't do anything illegal but you should still be greatly concerned for your privacy and take all possible preventative measures.
You may serve in the military today and 20 years form now be charged with a war crime. What's legal today might not necessarily be legal in the future and nothing other than your blind faith will prevent a future governing body from retroactively charging you with crimes related to this. If they have a database of you and your data, nothing is stopping them from using this against you in the future.
This is especially true with the rise of communism in the West at the moment. Do not underestimate the lengths that these extremists will go when they are in power.
They would not spend all of these resources collecting your data if they did not intend to use it.
Millions of white bois have been backdoored. Live with it. Fuck white people.
Fuck you nigger
Mac Master Race! They’ve tracked all of you Jow Forums history. JK. You guys should go all jew and file a class action lawsuit for mental stress.
Depends on the brand and there are work arounds.
Didn't we have this thread like 12 hours ago?
Time to throw away all tech. Smartphones, computers, anything that can connect to the internet.
Who's with me? CAVEMEN RISE UP
Fuck I hate opposite day here
>Mac Master Race!
>Shitting on Firmware backdoor
>Intel CPU
Mac users are a special kind of retarded. You realize they comply with the alphabets and use intel chips?
Get real tired of this secrecy shit.
It's important to remember that this only affects EFI/UEFI systems, and not BIOS, as they are distinct from each other. Albeit, it will be difficult to find a system produced past 2012 that has a BIOS-only motherboard.
Try removing the CMOS battery for a day or two, then reset your hardware clock and reflash the BIOS.
CompuTrace is installed on every school computer in Australia.
IT people recommend it
Doing Gods work
take a break, go outside
Is this for real? Wowsies. Still, there's a backdoor in the kernel or any one of the binary blobs that arent open source (firmware, microcode...) and things like Meltdown, Spectre, hardware backdoors in the processor itself (like the one that guy found in the Via C3 not long ago) etc
IT Technician here, this really effects brand new machines more than older ones.
As long as CompuTrace is disabled in the BIOS, it isn't present in memory, there is no UEFI partition, and you'd need physical access to the machine to enable it. This is the default state for pretty much every machine until now.
The issue is the newer ones come with it enabled and need to go through extra steps to disable it.
This.
i'm running linux for a few years but i'm under no illusions that glow in the darks couldn't easily do whatever they want with my machine.
just don't be low hanging fruit for lesser scumfucks
AWS is 100% Unbuntu, that’s glow in the dark central kid.
We need an open-source hardware movement/revolution. So much wasted talent in universities that could be giving us open-source CPUs. I bet that a viable market niche exists in the privacy savvy people that'd be willing to sacrifice speed and cost.
>Buying anything other than Apple computer
Poor fags getting what they pay for EVERY.SINGLE.TIME
AWS likely has compromised host machines, nothing to do with the OS. Who has physical access can compromise it. Or Amazon was forced into it by a 3-letter agency under the wraps.
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>implying Ive been on Jow Forums for the last 12 hours
See >
same, probably have analyst spyware though
>2014
It is over.
>still using xp at all
it's like you want to get owned
They work with them openly.
aws.amazon.com
I thought Wikileaks already broke how the alphabet agencies--and China, too, since China makes the fucking components and reverse-engineered all the shit--have everyone's computers totally backdoored from the OS down to the hardware. Are normalfags just now catching up to how it's not a "conspiracy theory" but verifiable fact now?
So is this fixed or what?
there might be an option in the BIOS to permanently disable it. I recently got a refurbished T431s and it was under Security > Anti-Theft > Computrace > Computrace Module Activation > Current Setting. If your BIOS is like mine there should be three options: "enabled", "disabled", and "permanently disabled". Picking the 3rd option will permanently disable it, making it impossible to reactivate it.