With a little sprinkle of "is my mic listening to my convos?" specific ads mixed in there

Literally the exact same here. And I love this setup.

This Tails if you dont got the time

Easier to torrent now 😎

Much appreciated!

Interesting!

I will have to do more research on that and investigate more into open-source vs free software as well as their origins.

Thanks for the insight, sorry if my previous comment felt snide!

This will probably be another case of the European Union having to save our (the U.S. and others) collective asses from corporate overreach.

How does Google/AT&T stand as an example that free is better than open source? That makes no sense…

It does encourage informed people to use open source alternatives though.

What does ditching windows have to do with security chips? OS sits above the hardware so that does not make sense. Any linux distro is just as susceptible as it stands.

No ones worried about social media companies messing with your hardware (not yet). That’s off-topic. Besides, legally nothing stops Intel or AMD from just selling the harvested data to Fb or whoever so that point is kind of moot too.

Actually news just broke as I was writing this and guess what. Now there is a bug allowing browser exploitation of the CPU using… Javascript! What a time to be alive…

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/07/encryption-breaking-password-leaking-bug-in-many-amd-cpus-could-take-months-to-fix/

Idk what you’re talking about, it’s been done plenty of times?

Plus we dont even really know what new “Security” tech their cooking up nowadays. Especially with in-house chips like Apple M chips.

Meltdown Redux: Intel Flaw Lets Hackers Siphon Secrets from Millions of PCs

Intel can read RAM directly and other parameters using their built in security systems on certain chips. Maybe do more research first to understand why that is distressing. There are some projects for open source CPUs on-going.