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ofc I imediatly upgraded it from winxp to gnu/linux

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)
[–] frankgrimeszz 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

In the case of the soldiers in Iraq, China had installed an independent chip specifically for keylogging. I don’t know if replacing the boot loader would even solve that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh I read it was a backdoored BIOS.

Yeah libreboot would probably not help much then.

[–] frankgrimeszz 1 points 3 months ago

There was more than one incident. There’s a whole list of incidents.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago