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This is big: The US Govt has created a hardware backdoor in the CPUs of Apple devices. This cannot be patched with a software update. Every owner of an Apple device is affected. You have no security. US spy agencies will have done the same with other CPUs. (vid8.poal.co)

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And they even tell the people

what is the Intel Managment Engine for ?

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000008927/software/chipset-software.html

And there is the equivalent AMD, obviously

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The NSA/DOD/DHS worked with intel to create a extremely specific hardware configuration (a few actually) that if that configuration was detected it would automatically disable everything to do with IME.

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