@vexmasina44 Partially correct, with intel having the management engine and AMD having the Platform Security Processor, but Nvidia doesn't have a subsytem. Nvidia has graphics drivers that are non-free and these are optional on linux/unix as we have the nouveau driver for general desktop use and the cuda driver for math/calculations. With the two subsystems, although both of these do have the potential to give intelligence agencies our data since they can be logged into remotely and they have read/write acess for all storage devices these are rarely used to collect data as they already have it from social media and OSes that are under the prism program. The Managment engine can be effectly disabled on most modern computers (pre skylake) with ME_cleaner. Additionally, older core series intel boards can have the entire bios replaced with libreboot resulting in an entirely open source computer. With AMD and modern intel boards the solution is to just not buy them. For complete escape from corporations (which is an entirely unncessary preemptive measure) you can get a computer like talos II or Socionext developerbox (extremely expensive).
