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   ★ STMAN ★ 🏳️‍🌈 (stman@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Oct-2024 04:33:00 JST ★ STMAN ★ 🏳️‍🌈

   • georgia

   @georgia

   Here are some pictures of some prototypes of end-user verifiable free integrated circuits (It's a modified PLCC84 IC package, that can be opened by end-user and resealed after the IC content was checked by a special machine, a kind of automated microscope).

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     ★ STMAN ★ 🏳️‍🌈 (stman@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Oct-2024 04:32:59 JST ★ STMAN ★ 🏳️‍🌈

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     • georgia

     @georgia thing were covertly inserted into the design.

     The special machine that verify your copy actually also test each transistor individually.

     Without that, all the IC's you use can be backdoored without your knowledge. Do you realize that in such case, the benefits of free software in terms of user control are almost null ?

     Do you understand ?

     Or does the CIA brainwashing and propagand prevents you from understanding such an easy to understand thing ?

     So my question is simple :

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     ★ STMAN ★ 🏳️‍🌈 (stman@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Oct-2024 04:32:59 JST ★ STMAN ★ 🏳️‍🌈

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     • georgia

     @georgia

     Why do you advocate like hell, like a guy from a sect, for free software, while you don't even care for what is inside all the integrated circuits composing your computer ?

     Do you realize how stupid it is ?

     Do you ?

     Say thank you to the CIA for brainwashing you this way. And don't worry, you're not the only one, they brainwashed almost 99.9% of the hacker scene.

     Free Software, without computers fully made out of free integrated circuits, is almost useless.

     Deal with it !

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     georgia (georgia@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Oct-2024 04:32:59 JST georgia

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     @stman why are you so hostile to a stranger. free software is better than the alternative and youre merely a useful idiot.
     feld likes this.
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     ★ STMAN ★ 🏳️‍🌈 (stman@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Oct-2024 04:33:00 JST ★ STMAN ★ 🏳️‍🌈

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     • georgia

     @georgia

     If it is easy with free software to check its integrity and conformity regarding its original source code or executable binary, by checking the signature of a hash, is a way more complex operation with free integrated circuits : Checking the conformity and integrity of your copy required access to the silicium die and analyze it with a special machine (A kind of microscope, but way more powerfull) to compare it to the original plans and source code, and to ensure no other extra

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     ★ STMAN ★ 🏳️‍🌈 (stman@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Oct-2024 03:50:04 JST ★ STMAN ★ 🏳️‍🌈

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     @georgia I never said free software was not useful. Never. I just reminded you, as you seems to be a "radical free software folk", that your radicality makes me laugh as long as you don't also advocate for end-user free integrated circuits and for free hardware.

     The useful idiot is you. NSA and CIA hide more backdoors into integrated circuits than you may think. So free software or not, as long as integrated circuits are backdoored, your free software freedom is deeply compromised.

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     georgia (georgia@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Oct-2024 03:50:04 JST georgia

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     @stman you could've made that point without getting angry and paranoid sounding
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     georgia (georgia@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Oct-2024 04:17:50 JST georgia

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     @stman if youre talking about the IME and the PSP one of them (intel IME) is disabled in several models. Its not as dire as you seem to think.
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     georgia (georgia@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Oct-2024 04:19:56 JST georgia

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     @meso @stman I see
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     meso [netzsphaere era] (meso@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Oct-2024 04:20:00 JST meso [netzsphaere era]

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     @georgia @stman hes probably just talking about completely hidden and unacknowledged circuits
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     ★ STMAN ★ 🏳️‍🌈 (stman@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Oct-2024 07:20:43 JST ★ STMAN ★ 🏳️‍🌈

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     @georgia

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     georgia (georgia@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Oct-2024 07:20:43 JST georgia

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     @stman whatever you say dude
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     ★ STMAN ★ 🏳️‍🌈 (stman@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Oct-2024 07:20:44 JST ★ STMAN ★ 🏳️‍🌈

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     @georgia Oh my god.

     The VHDL source code of many IC's in your PC, including Intel CPU, but not only, count in several hundred million lines of code.

     IME is just an official backdoor, but they are so many others. Every key element is backdoored, like random number generator, ethernet controller, the south and north bridges, etc..

     The source code of all these IC's is larger than your debain's OS source code and you think they just inserted the well known IME ?

     Same for the BIOS / EFI software.

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     ★ STMAN ★ 🏳️‍🌈 (stman@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Oct-2024 07:20:44 JST ★ STMAN ★ 🏳️‍🌈

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     @georgia Everything you're just said, everything, believe me or not, is the standard CIA brainwashing about these issues.

     This is what they formatted you to think, like most of the hacker scene.

     Same, you will truly believe that Tor protects anonymity.

     Look, it's very funny for other spies spying on me, because you're just yet another confirmation that CIA has brainwashed the hacktivist scene, with propaganda, and maybe with the help of psychotronic weaponery too.

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     ★ STMAN ★ 🏳️‍🌈 (stman@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Oct-2024 07:20:44 JST ★ STMAN ★ 🏳️‍🌈

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     • georgia

     @georgia

     FYI About Free Integrated Circuits :