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what is the best privacy distro? (lemmy.world)

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For my phone, I use Graphene OS. What would be the best desktop Linux option to match the level of security and privacy that GOS provides?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Read up on the intel management engine. It's an extra chip that was included in pretty much every intel CPU since 2008. It's got pretty scary potential, but no alphabet agency has yet declassified their info on it (think CIA denying any involvement in shipping and selling heroin, but then declassifying documents that proved they shipped heroin in coffins and bodies of dead soldiers).

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

You're pretty deep in the tinfoil hat zone now. CPU proprietary black box does not mean the NSA are trying to infiltrate your broken arch setup so they can let their FBI lizard agents steal ur hentai.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Oh for sure, but I'd be really surprised if the super secret black box that can't be completely expunged from your machine doesn't have anything to do with some alphabet agency.

After all, we know that NSA approached Linus to put in a backdoor (Linus's father, Linus), and that NSA linked groups have used Linux backdoor malware in the past.

That might be proof against IME being a backdoor, but it could also be a smoke screen and insurance.