Message from @Hopefully Heroic
Discord ID: 708748969915973712
It's crazy.
. . . All input and output of modern computers and cell phones is being recorded and monitored by federal governments, international intelligence communities, and other actors. Nothing that you do on or near these platforms can be considered safe from their eyes or ears, because even if you are using secure software, the hardware itself is often working against you.
For example, the Intel Management Engine is a separate computer that runs within modern (post-2008) Intel machines. It runs even when the system is powered off, and has access to everything on the system. Keystrokes, network traffic and hardware, everything. Because the Intel ME is part of the hardware, and removing this hardware actually disables the computer, there is no way around it. AMD has something similar called PSP. . .
From the guy I sent that write-up to who is tech-savvy as well:
old cpus dont have it tho, and arm cpus dont either, librebooting is a way to get rid of it on older systems, and this is why in dont have a phone, but there is also a tradeoff its harder to monitor IME than it is to monitor discord it would take insane resources to constatnly monitor everyone with IME, so im sure they don, but targetedly, sure, however IME can read memory and send whatever but it has to catch you in the act, while discortd for example has logs, and that is the diffrence, so logging is the really dangerous one, yes it is possible to get out of line access to memory with IME but it requires individula attention and there is no backlog
With the budget they have, and the backdoors, if you are on some kind of list it's not outlandish to think that they would use ime to spy on you.
Of course, that’s if you get on a list in the first place.
oh boy
VPNs are very easy tp bypass if youre the federal gov
youll almost never not be tracked someway somehow so if you really wanna not be tracked get a virtual machine use duckduckgo or tor browser, and have everything on 1 hard drive you can throw in a microwave
also never post pictures you took with your phone or snapchat bc idk if yall know this but theres programs out there that you can just put the image in and it tells you the metadata which says your exact location
some guy i know saved pictures from peoples facebook where their "secret" fishing spot was and then used the program to find out where it was
Imagine not knowing how to disable or bypass metadata on a photo
Or imagine posting pics of your "secret" fishing spot. Dumbass😂
*people dont even know what metadata is*
*it's data that flows thru a system of tubes*
In my best old Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens voice😂
Thats some top shelf humor right there gentlemen
Got my Mission Darkness Farady Bag in today. Got it for work, but in case anyone is curious, it blocked all signals from getting to/from my phone. Good if you're trying to stay dark but don't wanna turn your phone off in case you need to be able to access it without turning it back on.
Nice,yea i was looking into getting one myself
If you're that worried about being monitored through your computer, build a raspberry pi with a linux variant and use it for comms and secure storage.
Ooh. I forgot about raspberry pi. Those suckers are cool.
Is raspberry pi 2 still good to go then?
I would assume not. But just because they aren't watertight doesn't mean they aren't good.
Just cause you tell it to disable doesn't mean it actually does..
> Just cause you tell it to disable doesn't mean it actually does..
@Bogs_Bunny right, all the firmware is still there.
It would make sense for feds not to want spyware on THEIR computers.
Do you think flashing my motherboard with custom firmware would stop it?
Like Coreboot/Libreboot? Depends on the model.
Core 2 Duo era Thinkpads can be flashed with Libreboot which comes with a true ME disabler
Could I still dual boot my Win10 and Linux? Or do I need some crazy specific OS too?
Linux works, Windows does not unless you are using a virtual machine.
BSD is fine too
Hmm. Sadness. I have two drives in my laptop. One running windows for video games and a very small handful of programs and the other drive running Linux Mint for everyday browsing, working, etc.
Guess I could go with two computers someday.
I'll have to get better with VMs and emulators.
If I sound like a dumbass it's because I have a firm grasp on some things and am clueless about others. Like I literally just learned about PSP and Intel ME.
Nah you're good that's just the way of the world, I'm the same way.