Found this on r/linuxhardware on reddit, thought it was interesting. I can never decide how I feel about ME-like components in computers. I dislike the possibilities for surveillance, backdoors,...
Found this on r/linuxhardware on reddit, thought it was interesting. I can never decide how I feel about ME-like components in computers. I dislike the possibilities for surveillance, backdoors, and possible attacks from people who might discover flaws/backdoors, but I don't really see a good way out of having such things included. I just can't see a situation in which users will actually boycott products in numbers high enough to elicit change from the major manufactures.
Very true for users like you and I, but it seems that most mainstream users will happily sacrifice privacy/security in order to keep buying what they always have, e.g. CPUs from Intel and AMD in a...
Very true for users like you and I, but it seems that most mainstream users will happily sacrifice privacy/security in order to keep buying what they always have, e.g. CPUs from Intel and AMD in a Dell or HP desktop.
I think that it would take a big manufacturer like Dell, HP, or Lenovo starting to use something new like RISCV and putting a lot of effort into marketing to get those regular users to switch over, which I just can't see happening.
Possibly. It would definitely fit well with their current theme of privacy. It'd probably take some real development by outside parties on the hardware front, though, as I doubt they would ever be...
Possibly. It would definitely fit well with their current theme of privacy. It'd probably take some real development by outside parties on the hardware front, though, as I doubt they would ever be willing to put too much in terms of hardware engineering resources into something like that when they could be working on new ARM-based chips, etc.
Found this on r/linuxhardware on reddit, thought it was interesting. I can never decide how I feel about ME-like components in computers. I dislike the possibilities for surveillance, backdoors, and possible attacks from people who might discover flaws/backdoors, but I don't really see a good way out of having such things included. I just can't see a situation in which users will actually boycott products in numbers high enough to elicit change from the major manufactures.
Do we really need to appeal to "major manufacturers"? We might find refuge in projects like RISCV.
Very true for users like you and I, but it seems that most mainstream users will happily sacrifice privacy/security in order to keep buying what they always have, e.g. CPUs from Intel and AMD in a Dell or HP desktop.
I think that it would take a big manufacturer like Dell, HP, or Lenovo starting to use something new like RISCV and putting a lot of effort into marketing to get those regular users to switch over, which I just can't see happening.
I could see Apple doing it.
Possibly. It would definitely fit well with their current theme of privacy. It'd probably take some real development by outside parties on the hardware front, though, as I doubt they would ever be willing to put too much in terms of hardware engineering resources into something like that when they could be working on new ARM-based chips, etc.
It isn't a healthy relationship between consumer and producer when they think they have to put these strange technological handcuff chips in.