are you dying because its true???

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>>34678025 (OP)

http://www.slideshare.net/endrazine/defcon-hardware-backdooring-is-practical

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ive heard /pol/ was backward as fuck, but they hate stallman? what's the logic behind that?

>>34678138
Wtf did I just read?

>>34678138
>Malware that requires the BIOS, network card to be flashed and a bootkit run remotely
What? How is that the same thing as Intel tracking you?

>>34678251
he's a jew, /pol/ is really stormfront and hates jews

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>>34678301
It's more like Stormfront invades /pol/.

>>34678301
ridiculous considering how promarket he is, and im assuming 99% of pol are internet libertarians

>>34678025 (OP)
>op thinks this is funny
I have news for you chuck. This is real.

>>34678344
>implying anyone needs your bios to track network traffic when ISPs are giving it up left and right

>not being red pilled yet
Question everything.

OK /g/ that thread was ridiculous but we need to talk about something I discovered years ago back when we were all still using XP

So I was trying to turn the normal 3.5GB Windows XP installation into something much smaller, like about 500MB. I got to using nLite (is that correct) or something and I was able to basically get into XP and take away whatever I didn't like. In the middle of configuring my custom XP installer, I found something... It said there's a feature in XP where all your activity is sent back to Microsoft HQ (for usage tracking purposes). This wasn't new to me because I'd been sending my own usage stats to Mozilla voluntarily (using Firefox). What shocked me was that this "feature" in XP tracked all your stats automatically and they didn't say a fucking thing about it. It was hidden in the OS and so far I still haven't seen any online discussions about it at all (even among those who I sought for help with the custom XP installer configuration.

So /g/ have you heard this? That was really bizarre to me when I found out about it on my own. I think I just went on with my installation and forgot about it... but then as you can see I didn't really forget about it. So what the hell was that?

>>34678363
That's when you clicked "don't send" to the error messages in winxp.
they think you're a terrorist cause you dont want to send error reports (cause they contain personal info)

Are you saying that this linux can run on a computer without windows underneath it, at all ? As in, without a boot disk, without any drivers, and without any services ?

That sounds preposterous to me.

If it were true (and I doubt it), then companies would be selling computers without a windows. This clearly is not happening, so there must be some error in your calculations. I hope you realise that windows is more than just Office ? Its a whole system that runs the computer from start to finish, and that is a very difficult thing to acheive. A lot of people dont realise this.

Microsoft just spent $9 billion and many years to create Vista, so it does not sound reasonable that some new alternative could just snap into existence overnight like that. It would take billions of dollars and a massive effort to achieve. IBM tried, and spent a huge amount of money developing OS/2 but could never keep up with Windows. Apple tried to create their own system for years, but finally gave up recently and moved to Intel and Microsoft.

Its just not possible that a freeware like the Linux could be extended to the point where it runs the entire computer fron start to finish, without using some of the more critical parts of windows. Not possible.

I think you need to re-examine your assumptions.

>/pol/