On 03/02/2018 10:13 PM, Tim W wrote:
Everyone knows those issues on this board and its understood. Point being he
asked for present day high end laptop but at the same time I will agree with
you that for most basic use models its not so much the processor as it is ram
amount but one thing for sure is you can not recommend a PC that one is not a
laptop and two has no xen or qubes support i.e talon/powerpc.
I think its rather moot talking about intel backdoors when its 100% plausible
that countless firmwares are backdoored.
Considering that the TALOS 2, KGPE-D16, KCMA-D8 and the G505S's
firmwares are open source and every component such as pci-e addon cards
that aren't are restricted by the IOMMU - again you give dangerous
advice and suggest that people focus on some vague theoretical backdoor
rather than what is a proven fact (that intel machines are owned by
intel, not you) and thus tell them they shouldn't even bother with security.
I mean by those standards why use qubes at all? it probably has
backdoors from all the worlds governments so you might as well just use
windows 10!
Its been mentioned numerous times by Joanna Marek and others that at some point
at this current point in consumer computing ayou must accept trust. Whatever
that point is may be different for different people but unless you are going to
make a computer from silicon up and every line of code to include a compiler
etc you must trust at some level. Thus the whole idea of picking and choosing
which of the possible violation is unacceptable is rather moot
So what you are saying is that because someone could have theoretically
slipped some super clever backdoor in to an open source firmware it
doesn't matter at all and why not just get a closed source firmware
laptop with ME?
That is not at all what they are saying.
What exactly are your professional qualifications on this matter? Do you
own at least one computer with open source firmware? If you are so
concerned with your privacy why do you use gmail?
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