Did you know that every Intel motherboard chipset released since 2009 comes with a builtin admin shell backdoor? Did you know that since Sandy Bridge, when graphics started getting integrated on-die, that a VNC server was added that can take full screen image captures and relay them over your onboard ethernic or wifi, without your OS even knowing?
Don't believe me? Research Intel ME (previously known as AMT, and before that as vPro). Specifically, look for what reverse engineers have discovered about it in recent months.
Well, since i bought a pentium, i'm apparently safe SKUs below 45xx as well as R-series and K-series SKUs do not support Trusted Execution Technology or vPro
Symbolics Lisp machines were never plagued with spyware like this.
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Anonymous2015-05-07 20:05
Endgame
As quickly as the commercial AI boom of the mid-1980s had propelled Symbolics to success, the "AI Winter" of the late 1980s and early 1990s, combined with the slow down of Reagan's "Star Wars" missile defense program, for which DARPA had invested heavily in AI solutions, severely damaged Symbolics. An internal war between Noftsker and the CEO the board had hired in 1986, Brian Sear, over whether to follow Sun's suggested lead and focus on selling their software, or to re-emphasize their superior hardware, and the ensuing lack of focus when both Noftsker and Sear were fired from the company caused sales to plummet. This fact, combined with some ill-advised real estate deals by company management during the boom years (they had entered into large long-term lease obligations in California), drove Symbolics into bankruptcy. Rapid evolution in mass-market microprocessor technology (the "PC revolution"), advances in Lisp compiler technology, and the economics of manufacturing custom microprocessors severely diminished the commercial advantages of purpose-built Lisp machines. By 1995, the Lisp machine era had ended, and with it Symbolics' hopes for success.
Symbolics continued as an enterprise with very limited revenues, supported mainly by service contracts on the remaining MacIvory, UX-1200, UX-1201, and other machines still used by commercial customers. Symbolics also sold Virtual Lisp Machine (VLM) software for DEC, Compaq, and HP Alpha-based workstations (AlphaStation) and servers (AlphaServer), refurbished MacIvory IIs, and Symbolics keyboards.
In July 2005, Symbolics closed its Chatsworth, California, maintenance facility. The reclusive owner of the company, Andrew Topping, died that same year. The current legal status of Symbolics software is uncertain.[7] An assortment of Symbolics hardware was still available for purchase as of August 2007.[8] The US DoD is still paying Symbolics for regular maintenance work.[9] First .com domain
On March 15, 1985, symbolics.com became the first (and currently, since it is still registered, the oldest) registered .com domain of the Internet.[10] The symbolics.com domain was purchased by XF.com in 2009.