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The Dangers of Microsoft Pluton

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733 points gjsman-1000 | 1 comments | 26 Jul 22 03:46 UTC | HN request time: 0.268s | source
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lizardactivist ◴[26 Jul 22 09:12 UTC] No.32235997[source]▶
The NSA and other three-letter US agencies will be all inside this chip, or have side-channels to the firmware update mechanism, obviously.

A secure operating system means nothing if the hardware itself cannot be secured, and the case for a new, trusted, transparent manufacturer of Intel-compatible CPUs and hardware in general grows stronger.

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1. Avamander ◴[26 Jul 22 11:05 UTC] No.32236713[source]▶
It's not out of the question.

Though I get the feeling we're missing the forest in the trees. Smartphones with proprietary basebands have been here for more than a decade or so. It's not only Intel-compatible we need, it would really take legislation to turn all these things more transparent or controllable.