On 03/02/25 Dianne Skoll via linux said: > Should they also stop using Microsoft products? I mean... I would obviously > support that, but is it practical? > > We have no idea what backdoors exist in Windows or Mac OS that let the > US government spy. But I bet they do exist. Of course they do. The NSA would not only require it, but would make it illegal for said company to tell anyone. Our own CSE organization uses Linux, GnuPG, and does not permit remote access, for damn good reasons. > How about Intel and AMD processors with their "management engines" doing who > knows what? Ban those too? Replace them with... what? ARM processors > that might be spying? RISC-V processors from China that might be > spying? These are difficult questions. I'm suddenly thinking Gene Hackman in Enemy of the State, sitting in a Faraday Cage and cut off from the Internet. Mike
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