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   翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 23-Dec-2022 18:48:56 JST 翠星石

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   • Reluctant Weeb
   @Reluctant_Weeb >move to a schizo operating system like openBSD
   That has plenty of proprietary software that it doesn't tell you about you know?
   
   >activity routed through TOR
   By the way, it was never "TOR", it's Tor.
   
   >to a truly secure desktop is librebooting a cpu, which only works on certain (usually old) cpus and risks permanently bricking them if done wrong.
   Libreboot is installed on the BIOS SPI flash chip on the motherboard and not the CPU.
   
   Where did you get the "permanently bricking" part from?
   If you flash a bad BIOS image, fixing such brick consists of attacking an external SPI flasher to the SPI BIOS chip and flashing a known good image (you should always have an external flasher, but even internal BIOS flashing isn't that risky).
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     Reluctant Weeb (reluctant_weeb@bae.st)'s status on Friday, 23-Dec-2022 18:48:57 JST Reluctant Weeb

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     • Terry
     • histoire ??☢️??
     @Terry @histoire
     It's complicated, the kernel is bloated and unhardened and there are some distros like Ubuntu with telemetry. It is definitely possible to remove anything even remotely sketchy from linux (there are hardened kernals built with this in mind), but it's probably easier to move to a schizo operating system like openBSD. And if you're gonna do that you also need to worry about things like backdoors in your hadware. All of this is ignoring the linux distros built with maximum privacy in mind, going as far as having all network activity routed through TOR and only being usable through a live environment. Basically, it's really complicated as "linux" isn't monolithic. Any linux though is pretty good for privacy/security and basically the best you can do without going pretty far out of a non-hacker's comfort zone, as the first step to a truly secure desktop is librebooting a cpu, which only works on certain (usually old) cpus and risks permanently bricking them if done wrong.
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     Terry (terry@bae.st)'s status on Friday, 23-Dec-2022 18:48:58 JST Terry

     • histoire ??☢️??
     @histoire linux is a honeypot?