With this alliance of government and tech to surveil citizens, and stifle free speech...
How do we get around the backdoors built into computer hardware? I'm not a tech guy... My knowledge of this subject is extremely limited. But I hate the idea that any computer you buy comes already compromised (or vulnerable to compromise) at the level of its processor and BIOS firmware. How about foreign made chips like pic related? And does anybody have experience with using liber-boot? Is it difficult to install and use?
If you were going to build a computer from scratch (to be as secure as possible), how would you do it?
You're gonna have to assume anything made in China or Israel is fucked. Run Linux on a PS3 or some shit if you're that worried about glowniggers reading what you post to this Mongolian horse racing forum.
Easton Brooks
anything made in china is impervious to western spys, and vice versa
How about we just have the people who did this killed?
William Phillips
Whoa
Josiah Nguyen
Also like is it bigoted if you’re right handed? Shiiiit
Leo Ward
When I say that I’m right and you’re wrong, that is Nazi stuff isn’t it? Goddamnit these racists...
Caleb Smith
pre 2008 Intel or pre 2012 AMD
Juan Hall
You're 100% Reich about those Natzi's
Mason Taylor
Nazi's*
Thomas Rivera
Idiots think that IME Ξ PSP
Daniel Evans
The only post on Jow Forums this isnt shit.... Thanks op.
James Miller
>T43 made mid to early 2007 or before. >Pull out the wlan card in it and the hard drive. >Upgrade the RAM >Run off live version of Linux >For internet use plug and play wireless adapters that you only purchase with cash, preferably second hand. Rotate these monthly >Any data kept should be encrypted, and kept on a USB stick which you store in your bum. Or don't, I'm not your supervisor.
This seems promising, but personally, I'm going with all new chips are pozzed. There's no real way around it. Day zero showed this, the Samsung TV shit, etc. but it's more than that. Anything made by the chinks is 100 percent compromised, and it's the reason hauwei got blacklisted. I'm going to read more on this, though. I was unaware it existed.
Adam Miller
This is interesting. I've been reading through it, and I *think* these are using older chipsets. The laptop seems to be. So these people appear to be on their shit.
>Anything made by the chinks is 100 percent compromised, and it's the reason hauwei got blacklisted.
But its compromised by the chinks (not the US government). The chinks don't give a shit about persecuting the enemies of Globohomo Inc.
Ryder Wright
The IBM John Titor came back in time for. Because it was the last computer made without backdoors.
Hunter Ward
>The Chinese are the enemy of the US government, because anything they compromise would be at infrastructure level, not individual >At this moment, the US government is more the enemy of the common man than the entirety of the militarized Chinese nation and their various intel groups >until such time, if ever, that the Chinese commit to open warfare in CONUS, they pose zero threat to US citizens domestically. Whereas the danger from our own totalitarian regime is real, omnipresent, and very, very personal. bruh. I mean I guess I knew this, but it never really hit me until you put it in this way. I need to lay down. Fuck.
Basically every single computer in the world uses a Chinese hardware and American software. There is nowhere to run, your only option is to not use computers, and as the economy becomes more technologically developed, will become nearly impossible to avoid using.
Thomas Ramirez
I don't care about the Chinese spying on me, what should I buy? is AMD fine?
Juan Brown
Some cheap stuff like Raspberry Pi, I guess?
Thomas Cruz
It's a mixture of the two, and that's the problem. If you don't care about the Chinese, fine. But you're still stuck with the NSA taps. The only way to avoid it is old hardware.
Leo Walker
Sad but true...
Jayden Cruz
Hell yeah, older tech is not to say it does not include back doors, but I know for a fact some big ones were only added in the last what 10-20 years? The next gen kill-switch stuff.
>This is interesting. I've been reading through it, and I *think* these are using older chipsets. The laptop seems to be. So these people appear to be on their shit. Indeed. The laptops are built using older chipsets that have been certified to meet a define standard of "freedom" and they are flashed with libreboot for bios
i feel like a mac would be the least compromised since apple charges $1,000.00 for a monitor stand
Luke Powell
Those are compromised too, just the ruskies have the backdoor instead of the americans. But no globohomo corporate entity, so I guess it's somewhat better. And if you're thinking of starting your own company of CPU manufacturing with the intention of keeping the globohomo jews out of it: You better have a military force comparable to the russian's, otherwise you're definitely getting suicided with two bullet shots to the back of your head.
Jonathan Martinez
Well the it has an IBM PowerPC processor from before they switched to Intel so its not backdoor'd. It wont run the latest MacOS but it can run linux
The new macs have hardware back doors in them from the vPRO TPM units in the Intel processors
Nathan Reyes
It's actually a star of David when you do the mirror decode, but it's inside the nazi flag saying they are authoritarian Jews.
Daniel Cook
its only one of many layers of compromise. its a nsa matter to ensure legal requirements are enforced for any company
every point of entry is compromised - binary blobs, wifi, bluetooth, every piece of hardware on market, infustrial controllers, cisco, microsoft, google, social media apps admin portals, yadda, yadda
just imagine your smartphones as user interface acces to gov services
Christopher Garcia
"tinker boards", you can Google it, the more obscure the better. good ones are about $250. you need to check the specifications for the CPU and cross reference with known backdoors. you can also check out the hardware list on sites like libreboot. no microcode is preferable. then after this you want to use an encrypted VM and Tails on USB stick. you might ask "well who cares about hardware backdoor if I'm just using a USB anyway". the point of no hardware backdoor is so that if someone is somehow capable of traversing from your USB to your CPU you are still "safe".
plenty of CPUs are not Chinese, not Russian. there are other manufacturers out there which are American and European.
it's not like Israel isn't a foreign government though, right
t. I know this is a honeypot but I'll still help you because I'm a nice guy
Brody Moore
every post is legally tied to your smartphone - linkability
hint: try to find copies of evidence, digital footprints, in federal court cases
Aaron Perry
Bulldozer was the last AMD chip with no backdoor
Gavin Price
how the fuck I'm being blocked, srsly compromised op ?
Hudson Edwards
what law is being broken
Cooper Wood
theres a group lawsuit against vizio too, apparently their tvs took pictures of you and someone found out. i believe the vizio youtube tv app destroyed cable tv from 2013 to 2018.
James Howard
yes, but I don't know how to make a processor in my back yard garage lab
Dylan Collins
this requires open source machine tooling & metrology, its a huge journey just to get to semiconductor fabrication.
Tyler Miller
so, instead of trying to imitate building a processor by trying to duplicate the actual wiring, you might just simplify the instruction set
Liam Gutierrez
Now now calm down
Jace Moore
From reading your comment I thought you meant pictures of the TV viewer, but in a quick search I only saw this: >Vizio used a process called automated content recognition (ACR) to collect this data from smart TVs, then transmitted the data back to home base for sales to third parties. >Vizio used ACR to take partial screenshots to not only figure out which channel viewers were tuned to, but also to tell which DVDs, Blu-ray disks or streaming services they were watching. (It's not clear whether video games could be similarly "fingerprinted.") >Vizio bundled that data with information about the "sex, age, income, marital status, household size, education level, home ownership, and household value," according to the FTC.
Henry Adams
at least give me a 666 ending, leaches
Andrew Bennett
everything is pozzed
Aaron Bell
Anyone?
Kevin Sanchez
I'm not a judge, you fucking moron
Mason Morgan
>tinker boards make their own CPUs Since when?
Anthony Rogers
>Chips that aren't compromised. can't help you friendo. there are obvious choices but beyond that it's safe to assume at this point everything has a number of 0-day exploits that will never be fixed
>Intel chips are comprised >IME is a backdoor I honestly want to know where this meme started. IME has some security flaws (but only if you can already execute code on the machine) but it has no deliberate backdoor. There are dumps of the programmable rom and the Spectre patch for the IME is freely available. The Intel x86/64 microcode is some of the most audited in the world, and much of it is freely available for you to look through if you know whay youre doing.
Levi Rivera
MOS 6502. The original NMOS, not this CMOS WDC shit.
Also, AVR's are pretty decent.
Carter Kelly
at a certain point, you would need to examine the hardware
Julian Wilson
Bullshit, early 6502's are just as fine. Titor only wanted it because it was a drop-in replacement for big iron mainframes that would be impossible to transport.
Discrete transistors all made before 1990 all microchips could have a spy bug on part of thier die
Cooper Smith
Angela Merkel (irgendwie irgendwo, irgendwan) has no fucking clue, and it's not the evil russians, most germans could not care less (the greatest story never told) unless they do like to be informed; wtf you hiding from, sweet angela ?
Lucas Cruz
I'm going to start melting some silicium
Cooper Cox
Back to quora you go
Camden Nguyen
Back to PowerPC?
Thomas Reyes
Ok what if we adapted Gameboy Colors to transmit signals across longer distance
Lucas Price
No the infrared sucks. Use Nintendo DSs with PictoChat.
nohting is safe then including what they use and if u can hack it you can turn it into whatever you want. its no different than a computer just its under some encryption shit is what i heard
they are all computers its all hacking
Anthony Robinson
Stop buying Intel chips and buy AMD instead. Idiots will argue and say "Lol, China will just spy on you instead of Israel", but I'll let you decide which is worse.
Ryder Reyes
This smells like Fucking glow nigs I’m out. Good luck
There are interests waging a war against general purpose computation and secure communication in the hands of the public. Check out some videos by Christopher Domas and you'll see the evidence of compromising hardware. Also we need a whole new ecosystem, away from the established architectures, away from the traditional locked operating systems and systems software, and away from end user services and social media with their current models treating users like the product in order to make money. Whoever delivers this stands to make a lot of money, but also enemies, i.e. try selling hardened blackberry phones and see what happens. There will be resistance and harassment for loicense.
The fact that other parties can't summon the resolve to verify or roll their own silicon is sad. But I have hopes a new ecosystem will come about from another party rolling it out for their own security, and then putting it on the market as a way to subsidize this endeavor. China is showing some resolve in this regard, but I'll wait for something different. Imagine a non-cucked linux phone on a risc-v board, securced, simplified, cryptified, customized, and used end services that are not cucked.
We can push lithography down to 7nm and clocks to 5ghz, yet for some reason we need complex architectural components (which I won't go into).... to do what? 3DVRARPorn? A simplified and secure architecture should be even more feasibile given current technology, without making compromises to squeeze out performance (spec.ex., etc.)
>tldr RISC-V, with TempleOS burned in silicon on chip, ASCII only
Mac actually didnt have TPM from 2006 onwards, but the new ones have T2 which is an apple made TPM and may or may not be comped. While one would hope they are not comped, reality is probably they are if you're of the suspicious type. I do believe most Macs that are post-2006 but pre-2016 T2 touch bar revamp, should be free of TPM.
And of course, the original cheese graters (NOT THE NEW ONE) if PowerPC version, is indeed free of comping. So despite all the shit everyone gives Apple now, once upon a time when Steve Jobs was alive they made some halfway decent shit. And for what it's worth about those old cheese graters, I know many people who are still using them just fine. That's right, those old pieces of shit just keep on trucking like you wouldnt imagine.