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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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Clipper was just a distraction until they could get hooks in all of the silicon.

Nothing is safe, it all has backdoors.

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