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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: 0.195s | source
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metadat ◴[26 Jul 22 03:50 UTC] No.32234045[source]▶
Ew. Why are all the chip manufacturers going along with this stupid plan? I want to buy a processor and then own it and have it work in my best interests, not consume electricity and generatie heat enforcing draconian 3rd party DRM policies.
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MikusR ◴[26 Jul 22 04:56 UTC] No.32234400[source]▶
Intel started putting ME in their cpus 12 years ago.
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2Gkashmiri ◴[26 Jul 22 05:09 UTC] No.32234479[source]▶
and yet, without any evidence, huawei is being blamed for "spying".... smh
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superchroma ◴[26 Jul 22 05:20 UTC] No.32234551[source]▶
It's not mutually excusive. I think risks from hostile powers need to be called out, and I think we also need to be calling out this bad behavior on our side too.
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Schroedingersat ◴[26 Jul 22 05:54 UTC] No.32234771[source]▶
The US is a hostile power everywhere else in the world. And then also for about 4-8 out of every 8 years to its own citizens.
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1. oarsinsync ◴[26 Jul 22 15:02 UTC] No.32239313[source]▶
> And then also for about 4-8 out of every 8 years to its own citizens.

And you can pretty much guarantee that ~50% of the population will always consider that statement true, no matter the government of the day.