A bill that would allow police in France to spy on suspects by remotely activating cameras, microphone including GPS of their phones has been passed.

  • Toribor@corndog.uk
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    1 year ago

    Modern hardware is likely exploitable by state actors via firmware/hardware vulnerabilities that can’t be mitigated at a software level.

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      1 year ago

      Ya just look at the Intel management engine. Or the AMD platform security processor. Lot of spooky shit like secret op-codes.

      We need more open source HW.