US to take 10% equity stake in Intel, in Trump’s latest corporate move. What are you thoughts on this from a privacy standpoint? I’m not close to being an expert on this tech, but can the US Government exploit this?
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China has been claiming that there are NSA backdoors in the Intel secure enclave (which would allow it to phone home without the OS even knowing as secure enclaves have their own network stacks) for a while now, and I am inclined to believe them, especially because Microsoft is pushing so hard to force them on consumers to the point of losing market share with the Windows 10 EOL, and we all know which two states Microsoft serves above their customers or shareholders. I’ve been avoiding Intel already as a result.
What do you use instead? Isn’t AMD PSP similar to Intel ME and probably works the same?
Potentially, but China isn’t making the same claims per AMD. Also, Intel used to be so dominant, I could see a long-term NSA spying plan from the Obama years just assuming Intel would still be dominant 15 years out and not bothering with AMD. Of the duopoly choices, it seems rational to pick AMD.