Originally this was a reply to this article about a Windows feature called Recall, but there’s a good argument the author’s concerns resonate far beyond Windows and Meta to proprietary generally.

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      You mean with the USA Intel or AMD CPUs?

      Think that it doesn’t matter what you use as OS as the microchip inside the CPU chip can read anything it wants

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          It wont protect there.

          Also, I remember articles back then mentioning 5G Towers could create a dystopia because every company could easily put a 5G chip into the product and secretly track you regardless of Wifi.

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          Didnt google actually provide a service to create custom Silicon Chips with to 107nm and open source some Risk-V things?

          I think it would be actually possible to create your own CPU through sich thing but unsure if they are able to backdoor it too. I think less likey

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      Like, there are a lot of reasons to switch to linux and plenty of them are compelling. But its an absolute fantasy to believe you’re somehow immune to surveillance because you’re using the same software as Amazon’s EC2. Does anyone really believe the NSA hasn’t cracked Linux Mint yet?

      It’s much harder for the government and bad actors to hide backdoors in open source software than making a deal with a private company