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Secure hardware choices User 10/14/15 (Wed) 17:59:02 No.35315

What do you guys do about hardware security e.g. backdoors/etc.?

I mainly run a laptop because I travel a lot but I have a desktop back at home. My desktop is fine but my 15" A8 APU laptop will melt my testicles and rarely gives me more than 3 hours of battery life. And I don't want to go with intel because with their vpro chips giving nearly all of their cpus 3G connectivity nowadays you might as well just email your encryption keys to the nsa.

Is it even possible to find a decently laptop without being a bluepilled slave to the kikes?

User 10/15/15 (Thu) 04:26:31 No.35345

Get a bigger battery. Undervolt your proc and ram as far as they'll go without causing errors, and make sure things like your ethernet port are being disabled when you're not using them. Do you have a discrete graphics card? See if you can disable it or tune it.

Intel is fucky. From what I've read about AMT/ME in Intel's literature, it has to be listening constantly on a hidden TCP or UDP port in order to be capable of the things they say it is, specifically remotely "turning on" AMT.

The AMD chips have problems too, but it's so far been restricted to local exploits. Hardware rootkits. Make sure that malware never has access to your hardware ever. This isn't 1998 anymore. Don't do anything on bare metal, use Xen or KVM and within your VMs use containers like OpenVZ or FreeBSD Jails. There are exploits every now and then for VMs and containers, but rarely do they occur at the same time.

User 10/16/15 (Fri) 03:33:51 No.35372

>>35315

Avoid Intel and Nvidia.

AMD is going into all of my future builds. AMD Zen processors won't be around until a year from now but I happily wait. Their new ARM offerings will be competitive much sooner.

Intel and Nvidia are having a stranglehold on the market. Not good. Buying them encourages more disturbing behavior. Resist.

I believe we have a duty to use and benefit from AMD with a Free operating system in these years to come. The word must be spread before it's too late.

User 10/16/15 (Fri) 03:52:01 No.35374

Librebooted Thinkpad X60 running Trisquel.

User 10/16/15 (Fri) 07:12:01 No.35376

>>35315

Definitely stay away from Intel if you can, the others here are correct about the issues with AMT. I have completely lost faith in Intel over this, their hardware is permanently compromised security wise.

AMD has some promising things coming too… For now, you could look into a mobo that supports libreboot (there's, one) and maybe find out if there are other candidates in line. Get one with a decent upgrade path for new AMD proc's and build from there.

User 10/16/15 (Fri) 13:28:56 No.35381

>>35372

It's already too late. I don't mean to hate on AMD but their driver support is trash and because of that nobody will use them.

User 10/16/15 (Fri) 15:16:22 No.35385

>>35381

It's not too late.

AMD will be the future. 2016 is going to be a breakthrough time to choose them. I understand the sentiment but driver support is getting a lot better. Ditch Intel and Nvidia's intrusions. Ditch their extend/extinguish effects SDKs in gaming. I say this as someone who's mostly bought Intel and Nvidia up until recently, and I will submit to them no longer.

AMD Zen will be very open source friendly, fast, and proper.

User 10/17/15 (Sat) 05:08:43 No.35407

>hurr durr DA JOOZ muh privacy don't use Intel!!

Intel is superior in most aspects with the exception of power usage. AMD panders to neckbeards bawwing about Linux compatibility for their shitty 10 year old computers because the open market consisting of 88% windows consumers deemed AMD faulty hardware in 2015.

User 10/17/15 (Sat) 06:45:20 No.35408

>>35407

>making fun of people and companies that value privacy, security, and software that respects user freedom

>mentioning the Windows/spyware market as if to be stupid enough to support it

>not being supportive of AMD's next chips

>posting in /cyber/

That's ok. It'll get better and other people will care.

User 10/17/15 (Sat) 13:00:26 No.35426

>>35407

good goy

User 10/17/15 (Sat) 17:45:19 No.35444

>>35407

>AMD panders to neckbeards bawwing about Linux compatibility

What? I am a neckbeard and I bought Intel because AMD can't into Linux.

User 10/18/15 (Sun) 23:10:22 No.35538

>>35385

Financial experts are betting on AMD as an out-of-nowhere stock to have good gains in the future, despite previously poor performance.

>>35381

Nvidia is going to start requiring that you register before you can download drivers.

Much like mods, the next step will be payment for drivers.

http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/216285-nvidia-announces-new-streaming-options-twitch-integration-future-game-ready-drivers-will-require-registration

User 10/19/15 (Mon) 00:15:34 No.35543

>>35372

Would I be able to place AMD into my HP laptop that has Intel?

User 10/19/15 (Mon) 00:35:45 No.35545

>>35407

User 10/19/15 (Mon) 00:39:11 No.35546

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>>35407

Have you tried not dropping the spaghetti?

User 10/19/15 (Mon) 02:49:12 No.35557

>>35543

Assuming this is a serious post, no, laptops are hard as fuck to modify and you'd need to replace the whole motherboard.

User 10/19/15 (Mon) 08:04:34 No.35569

>>35538

>That doesn’t mean you won’t be able to download a driver from Nvidia.com — it just means that the drivers on the website will be updated periodically, not on a per-release basis.

Meh it's still fine. You don't /have/ to register.

User 10/21/15 (Wed) 01:42:01 No.35694

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THIS

remember

>intel

gathers intel on you

>microsoft windows

can look through your windows

User 10/21/15 (Wed) 21:00:08 No.35729

>>35374

>Trisquel

Why is this better than any other distribution?

User 10/22/15 (Thu) 01:57:28 No.35743

>>35385

I'm also excited about Zen, but I'm unsure of how AMD will react about Jim Keller leaving AMD http://hexus.net/tech/news/cpu/86585-legendary-cpu-architect-jim-keller-leaves-amd/

User 10/22/15 (Thu) 03:06:35 No.35746

>>35729

No binary blobs I suppose, it is fully free software.

Terrlock!!3DLCrUKObw 10/22/15 (Thu) 04:23:07 No.35751

>>35407

>Intel

>Superior

Is toms hardware raiding us?

User 10/22/15 (Thu) 06:54:54 No.35753

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>>35694

Good mnemonic.

>>35743

Keller gets around. Bigger companies will throw more brouzouf his way, and he deserves it. I don't see any of it as bad news. He put the necessary work into Zen and now it's on track. The only setback is that it'll be up to intelligent people (as in freedom-loving /cyber/ types) to educate others on avoiding Intel/Nvidia, but it'll happen.

User 10/22/15 (Thu) 17:38:20 No.35773

good!

User 10/23/15 (Fri) 22:07:06 No.35833

bumped

User 10/24/15 (Sat) 18:54:53 No.35855

bumpen.

User 10/26/15 (Mon) 21:16:41 No.35998

Gotta keep cyber ALIVE! bump!

User 10/27/15 (Tue) 00:03:42 No.36008

What aboute open source hardware projects? I think we should show them a lot of support.

User 10/27/15 (Tue) 00:11:48 No.36009

>>36008

about*

User 10/27/15 (Tue) 05:00:14 No.36034

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>>36008

Yes. Open hardware is our future. I create hardware with Arduino mostly. It's solid. Use it. The present is in our hands.

Needless to say, avoid Microsoft and Intel's push into the space of consumer microcontrollers, Arduino-compatible or not, (e.g. Intel Galileo), otherwise it's digging our own graves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_computing_hardware

Strong CPUs take vast amounts of brouzouf and development. Incredible manufacturing goes into fabricating nanoscale CPUs. Fully open standards and production thereof won't be around any time soon. AMD will be the solid choice for anything strong. It'll be awhile before their next-generation VR and desktop products are ready. Their upcoming embedded chips look very good if you want to create much more rugged, long-lasting devices:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/21/amd_r_series_soc/

http://wccftech.com/amd-embedded-roadmap-2014-2016-leaked-insight-gen-apus-gpus/

As for regular components, choose wisely. If you're going to do a DIY laptop, for instance, I'd consider it a priority to think about hard/kill switches for wifi, mic, camera, bluetooth, etc., things you can unplug easily and default to being disconnected. Better that wifi is not built-in to the motherboard if the machine is for private use.

User 10/27/15 (Tue) 15:00:49 No.36049

very much related

http://blog.invisiblethings.org/papers/2015/x86_harmful.pdf

User 10/27/15 (Tue) 17:27:31 No.36050

>>36049

I was just reading that

User 10/27/15 (Tue) 19:41:03 No.36053

>>36008

THIS exactly.

User 10/27/15 (Tue) 19:41:47 No.36054

>>36049

>.pdf files can be harmful

>hey lets post a .pdf about how .pdfs can be harmful!

seriously?

User 10/27/15 (Tue) 21:38:39 No.36064

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>>36054

That's the joke

User 10/28/15 (Wed) 13:00:09 No.36109

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>>35315

>hardware security

User 10/28/15 (Wed) 21:43:30 No.36123

>>36109

>using intel

>ever

User 10/29/15 (Thu) 00:44:10 No.36142

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>>35315

We care, a lot. And we did it! Now it's up to Obama! https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/we-did-it-100000-people-call-obama-support-strong-crypto

Remember, crypto backdoors are harmful to society. Numerous leading cryptographers have proven this for decades now. Still, governments, both foreign and domestic, keep lobbying for backdoors in crypto behind our backs and this has got to stop.

Keep signing the petition, lads! https://savecrypto.org/

User 10/29/15 (Thu) 02:09:41 No.36145

>>36142

>not implementing your own crypto

do you even /cyber/?

User 10/29/15 (Thu) 04:37:12 No.36152

>>36145

>implementing your own crypto

User 10/29/15 (Thu) 05:33:00 No.36153

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>>36142

Obama? You mean calling on the person who's eager to sign CISA? The person who's about to sign laws that makes it easier for entities to cooperate with government spying by further indemnifying themselves and getting paid more easily by the state in exchange for the data, increasing so-called backdoors? The person who doubles-down on Bush's policies and supports policies of the surveillance-military state and intellectual property monopolists? (If it weren't for the likes of Snowden, 99.9% of the public would still have their heads up their asses.)

Him?

You have better luck kissing a cobra. Next we'll beg government officials to let us breathe "strong" oxygen. "Strong encryption." The goddamn 90s never stop. Word to the wise: backdoors are already pervasive. Backdoors in a 21st century usable form are simply plausibly-deniable "vulnerabilities." Cooperation introduces them and prolongs them. Closed-source software and hardware ensure them. Exploits aren't going anywhere. No amount of begging will stop the government from increasing them through NSLetter pressure, especially now with CISA. That's the way it is as long as their authority has your tax brouzouf to fund their careers and grand visions. It'll be done through more illusion of transparency and security. Dems/repubs lap that shit up.

Well, fuck me. I'm not all venom. I have sympathy. I like shows of support. I'll sign your petition, friend.

User 10/29/15 (Thu) 05:38:21 No.36154

>>36145

>rule 1 of crypto is to never roll your own crypto

User 10/29/15 (Thu) 06:02:13 No.36159

>>36154

In fairness, he didn't say roll your own [non-vetted cryptography algorithms]. He said implement your own. I read that as, "no matter what gov't says, it's still in your hands." Anyone who can't implement cryptography properly should learn or stay away from privacy/security matters of software.

User 10/29/15 (Thu) 11:37:43 No.36173

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>>36153

You made me laugh. It's a complete shitshow and politicians will always have double agendas, but petitions like these are really worth a minute of your time. So thanks for signing and showing support anyway, friend.

User 10/31/15 (Sat) 11:05:07 No.36321

bump.

User 12/26/15 (Sat) 16:27:13 No.38534

Do those aluminium wallets that are supposed to block ID theft scanners actually work?