Check your root privilege

https://www.wired.com/2016/06/demonically-clever-backdoor-hides-inside-computer-chip/
Specifically, they say that modern chips need to have a trusted component that constantly checks that programs haven’t been granted inappropriate operating-system-level privileges.

Three words: supppy chain security

he trusted chink commies to manufacture his equipment

It makes no difference whether a chip is fried, kettle cooked, or baked because you fuck yourself when you eat from the hand of Big Potato Chip.

Is anything really secure? Think about it.

You use software written by other developers. Do they have malware? Do they know they can trust their compilers to not insert backdoors into the code they write? Sure, you can trust people. But can you trust their accounts and their computers? Did they buy a computer in a random store? Did they get it shipped? Did it get tampered with in transit?

Think of all the important software projects in the world that people trust and rely on. How many of them are just being developed by people using run-of-the-mill computers with no special supply chain security? How many people just install tools without doing checksum verifications? How many people click through certificate warnings? How many developers enable javascript?

So you could say ``use X software because it makes you secure'' but are the people who make said software secure themselves?

>>5
It puts a new perspective on 'Trusting Trust'(which assumes hardware is secure by default)

>>6

secure by default

That's the BSD meme phrase.

Those who give up freedom for security deserve neither.

>>8
They're not mutually exclusive so I don't get why you'd be opposed to better security measures.

>>8

You are not free unless your CPU has a backdoor.

Nice meme, Satan.