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  • You'd think they would it was amazing how that system specifically reached such a large audience. A lot of older people even liked it.

    I will forever wonder why they just abandoned the whole idea after it had so much success.

  • Its almost as if even the better party of the two still has its own agenda that its trying to fulfill.

    One that isn't necessarily in our best interests.

    Of course there is a worse side of the coin but you gotta love how any time it is something that really fucks the people good (especially about privacy) they all suddenly magically agree and can pass it in moments.

    The fact that even the most progressive one out of the bunch who's supposed to be the way forward and should've had that nomination last time even voted yes on it should jolt everyone awake. But it will not.

    We were warned about a two party system.

  • You could send them to northst Louis. It's heavily irradiated from all the uranium refinement that Mallinkrodt did for the government in the 40s. They just poured it out in a big hole that they then turned into a garbage heap and set on fire.

    Its conveniently where all the poor people live.

  • I pay for proton mail and proton drive and still use Mullvad for my daily driver VPN.

    Only time proton VPN is worth using is if you need the port forwarding like for gaming or something.

  • They do it to look "tough on crime". A lot of people don't seem to realize that the legal system in the us isn't for the citizens benefit.

    Its about stomping that boot down, hard and having people listen.

    Its why this dude has done this, three separate times (did it last year too) and will never, EVER face any kind of repercussions other than a few news articles.

    The proof is in the pudding. If they actually gave a fuck about justice people like this shit stain Andrew Bailey wouldn't be able to pull shit like this.

    Just the justice system working how they designed it.

  • I definitely understand that but it is quite an important nuance of the topic to discuss especially considering the USA is threatening to ban Tik Tok for this reason and yet, allows all of its American companies to do the same.

    I get whataboutism and all that but when it is directly being affected by the rest of the conversation I feel like its important that the information does get talked about.

  • The fact that you can't discern what it is doing and it can't be disabled makes it invasive software. There's no shortage of qualified experts who agree with what I said and many others who point out glaring security vulnerabilities that come with using it. I linked a few for your convenience.

    https://www.eteknix.com/nsa-may-backdoors-built-intel-amd-processors/

    https://www.theregister.com/2018/01/06/amd_cpu_psp_flaw/

    https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-PSP-Disable-Option

    I'd say with all of the above at the very least its invasive software that has complete access to your system and all of its files and processes.

    Spyware by definition is "Any malicious software that is designed to take partial or full control of a computer's operation without the knowledge of its user." The fact that you can't look into what all it can do makes it capable of doing this.

  • Its a "trusted" execution environment for the system. So basically, it has access over your entire system and there's no way to know what it is doing because it is proprietary and many people and third party security groups have expressed concerns about it before and asked them to open source the code that runs it and they will not do it.

    Intel has a similar system the Intel Management Engine but you can disable that after bootup and also run it on open source bios so that it is essentially neutered. You cannot do that with AMD.

    The NSA disables and removes Intel ME on their systems, so it seems like there's a very real threat from these proprietary systems that have complete and entire control over every aspect of the machine and software running it.