It may not be part of the same matter, but in a video stallman says, if there is hardware devices on a mainboard that are not free software compatible, then do not install the software they require and use the mainboard without them.
About computer hardware back doors, if you have the knowledge would you
clarify?
In a video the pretty easy privacy person says, in a computer manufactured in
china china takes care of hardware backdoors and us agencies of sofware back
doors. At the same time somewhere I read, that if a computer mainboard has
uefi and tpm, which are chips?, then it is not a problem to install new
software on them and that way defeat back doors if they were present. Lets
say there was a free hardware mainboard made in china and available for
consumers to buy. Would it be possible to ensure that no hardware back doors
were part of the mainboard and to defeat them if present?
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