ᥫ᭡ 𐑖ミꪜᴵ𝔦 ᥫ᭡

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  • That’s not a hard proof, people keep saying Intel ME and AMD PSP are potential backdoors ( key word: potential ) and this argument is good if we’re arguing about: which is the best ISA, an Open ISA ( RiscV ) or closed ISA ( x86 )

    I was asking for a general example, I know that Mediatek chips included a backdoor but I only found one article that talked about it … In french…

    Mobos : I think it’s MSI ( I could be wrong ) that installed a piece of software through a Bios update, which showed they have privileged remote access capabilities ( I couldn’t find that source, sorry )

    Another example would be ASUS and Gigabyte Mobos, now the initial source says it came from the second hand resellers, but no one confirmed that… which is scary… because that would mean it came straight from ASUS and/or Gigabyte

    I was asking for incidents that you came across that could demonstrate the presence of firmware backdoors, saying having too many bugs is not a good argument, because all software has bugs.










  • Huawei, Xiaomi and Samsung phones

    • main reason: anti user freedom, and locking you in to their system, it’s extremely hard to wipe out your phone in order to sell it if you have a Samsung account linked to your phone, and they make it hard to flash a custom ROM, imagine buying a phone with your own money and you still need the manufacturer consent to do what you want with it…
    • confusing and slow UI
    • Ads everywhere on the UI
    • bloated with games and useless apps
    • they don’t take security seriously at all ( slow updates )
    • short update period
    • they lie in their marketing by giving big numbers ( battery capacity and camera quality for example )

    And last but not least, they kill your apps