How do we know that governments don't just have a secret hardware backdoor in all our devices? - eviltoast

Edit: Changed “the government” to “governments”

I mean, people say use end to end encryption, VPN, Tor, Open Source Operating System, but I think one thing missed is the hardware is not really open source, and theres no practical open source alternative for hardware. There’s Intel ME, AMD PSP, so there’s probably one in phones. How can people be so confident these encryption is gonna stop intelligence agencies?

  • Venator@lemmy.nz
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    3 months ago

    That being said, you are not worth the time to directly observe.

    At the moment; it’s important to remember facist governments can end up doing things that make no logical sense for idealogical reasons, so the best protection is to try to avoid ending up with a fascist government.