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FOSS hardware -- the real low level creepyness of AMD and Intel
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FOSS hardware should be a thing.
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Intel ME and AMD PSP
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Intel and AMD are pretty popular
<strong>
companies
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and so like most companies they're evil.
For example
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine">
Intel ME
</a>
and
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Platform_Security_Processor">
AMD PSP
</a>
,
they're basically low-level spyware, and not like you can easily disable it.
Normal users won't be able to do it properly and even experienced computer nerds
too, it's really finicky and I only saw few people on the internet do it, well at least for Intel.
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As far as I'm aware for Intel CPUs you have to
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Patch the BIOS
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Patch the firmware
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Physically modify the CPU
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Configure the BIOS
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And for AMD it's a bit easier
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Patch the firmware
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Patch the BIOS
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Configure the BIOS
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Both Intel ME and AMD PSP have LOADS of CVEs, the ironic thing is that
they're supposed to be secure...
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They are terrible, just built in CVEs and spyware, not even open source.
It's all proprietary... They use
<a href="https://securitytrails.com/blog/security-through-obscurity">
security through obscurity
</a>
which has never ended well...
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FOSS hardware
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What do I even mean by "FOSS hardware"?
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Open source firmware, drivers, BIOS, etc.
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All scheming and build process FOSS too.
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All plans completely open.
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Etc.
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FOSS hardware.
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Now after reading this you probably now understand why I want FOSS hardware.
There's no real alternatives to Intel and AMD spyware so we have to deal with it,
so FOSS hardware would
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Make FOSS more popular and give FOSS operating systems hardware they need
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Would not have as many CVEs and in general insecurities
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Would have less issues on for example BSD and Linux
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Like imagine having probably no issues on FOSS operating systems
and not needing to live in a world where EVERYTHING you do is spied on you
on a very low, hardware, level.
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In general FOSS
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As I see Linux growing more and more I feel like the next
logical step is FOSS hardware, Linux lacks that a bit, it would be amazing to have something that
you can trust and see what it does on every level.
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To conclude
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<p>
AMD and Intel are weird and just as bad as any other companies
known for their spyware, just that Intel ME and AMD PSP is not
as talked about
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