Most people who care about privacy focus on their operating system. Linux over Windows. open source over proprietary.
That's good. it's also not enough.
Here's what's running below your OS on almost every Intel computer made since 2006:
The Intel Management Engine is a separate processor inside your chipset running its own closed-source operating system called Minix 3. It has direct access to your RAM, storage, network, and peripherals. it runs at Ring -3 below your kernel, below your hypervisor, below everything your OS can see or control. it stays active even when your computer is powered off as long as it's plugged in.
You cannot audit it. you cannot disable it through normal means. You cannot detect what it's doing from inside your OS.
The EFF called it a security hazard in 2017. The Libreboot project said it has complete access to and control over your PC, including the ability to track keystrokes, capture screen images, and examine all running applications.
Intel confirmed multiple vulnerabilities in ME in 2017 affecting 6th through 8th generation Core processors, Xeon, and Atom chips. Researchers demonstrated it could be used to inject rootkits remotely via the network interface.
The only known method to fully disable it was discovered by Positive Technologies. They found a hidden bit in the firmware labeled 'HAP enable' part of an NSA program called High Assurance Platform.
The NSA has a switch to disable Intel ME.
you don't.
if you want hardware that doesn't include ME: AMD processors do not have the same implementation. Purism builds laptops with ME neutralized. The Libreboot project has a list of hardware that can run without proprietary firmware.
Your threat model determines how far down this rabbit hole you need to go.
But you should know the rabbit hole exists.
Julius Caesar began the conquest of Gaul at 42
Oliver Cromwell started his military career at 43
Genghis Khan was proclaimed Khan at 44
De Gaulle created the Free French Forces at 49
Marlborough won his first major battle at 54
Helmuth von Moltke defeated Austria at 65
Blücher defeated Napoleon at Waterloo at 72
It's never too late.
«الإحساس بالقلق» و«التتبّع البطيء باللمس»
صعب إنك تسويهم بنفس الوقت،
وعشان كذا لما تركز على إحساس أصابعك وهي تتحرك،
دوّامة الأفكار تهدأ شوي شوي.
في علم النفس، هالنوع من التمارين
ينقال له غالبًا
«التهدئة الذاتية»
This should stand as a lesson to many of you defending Billionaires online.
If you like, lick their anus n their toilet for 49 years. They won't change your condition.
You are never one of them n will never be.
All they can give you is enough to buy ogogoro.
Abdulaziz Yari is not only richer than Zamfara, the man is definitely richer than SOKEZA combined, and yet he had no established business or anything before his governorship. It’s wealth built on the blood and suffering of the people of Zamfara.
All the students who came forward as eye witness have been expelled. Over twenty of them. Other parents are keeping quiet. It’s Nihal today it can be your child tomorrow.
Head of in house security for 49 years and can’t afford a good life ??? You will fear Nigeria capitalism by force !!!!!
No his son trying to uplift the man is now seen as a Good Samaritan. Wow
I visited the first Gaza Holocaust Memorial in the US
Every American city should host the Wall of Tears
We paid for this genocide and should reckon with it for eternity
if the US wants Israel to stop bombing Lebanon, it will stop bombing Lebanon. They do not have to do fake "leaks" to the WSJ and NYT and Barak Ravid about "OMG TRUMP IS SO ANGRY OMG" and JD Vance does not have to go on a media tour and only mildly criticize Smotrich and Ben Gvir while praising and laundering Netanyahu and the Israeli regime and Israelis in general while all the morons in the alt-media class go "OMG THIS IS SO EPIC FROM THE MOSSAD-THIEL CREATION, HE IS REALLY ATTACKING ISRAEL AS A WHOLE NOW OMG WHAT A BREAK THIS IS EPIC".
You have to be a fucking idiot to think there is an actual break between the Zionist Israeli Witkoff-Kushner presidency and the Trump-Vance slaves based solely on these meaningless purely rhetorical media plays.
Your village people haven't won, and your family isn't cursed. You live in a country where it is 5x harder for young people to achieve their goals. There is nothing wrong with you, you are not a failure. You are simply a product of a struggling economy.
Beyond the signal and fury surrounding the IMF's latest recommendations for Nigeria, it is important for Nigerians and other Africans not to misunderstand the IMF as a standalone bad actor, but to see it as a node within a wider parasitic system run out of Washington DC.
This isn't even capitalism.
At least in capitalism you get a wage that *usually allows you to live from paycheck to paycheck.
This is straight feudalism
Lord and Serf.
The type of feudalism that inspired Lenin and Mao lol