You should also stop using web browsers, they are capturing data to learn about you. Your bank website? It saves information about you to try to make interactions easier. Never visit a bank web site. Your keyboard? There's probably a key logger installed on your computer, capturing every detail that you type. Better chuck that keyboard right in the trash.
You can build keyloggers into the cable itself, you can build a keyboard from a tiny IC, you can definitely add logging to that circuit, especially the big powered light up ones. You can host a webserver from this cable, not the board, the chip fits inside the freaking plug: https://shop.hak5.org/products/o-mg-cable This isnt even big news, we all know this stuff over there. Its kid stuff.
You say you can find an OS without a backdoor but the truth is you dont know how to verify that, you're creating trust based on rumor. Thats a foul. Even if you designed your OS from the board up, like a phone with only an MCU and modules for GSM and GPS and a cheap ass TFT touchscreen, you'd still never REALLY know what was running in that TFT screens driver IC. Engineers can hide anything and are sneaky af. You can put antennas inside ICs, dorks like you will say "its just a chip" and dismiss the radio waves it emits.
Pay attention, a lot of prophecies are coming true and they arent the nice fluffy ones. The average consumer of modern devices is a sitting duck.
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Gringojones ago
You should also stop using web browsers, they are capturing data to learn about you. Your bank website? It saves information about you to try to make interactions easier. Never visit a bank web site. Your keyboard? There's probably a key logger installed on your computer, capturing every detail that you type. Better chuck that keyboard right in the trash.
wrathfulmomes ago
I use browsers that don't.
There's no "keylogger" built into a keyboard, you fucking retard.
Most OSs have backdoors built in, but you can use one that doesn't.
Quit making strawmen.
KillYourTelevision ago
You can build keyloggers into the cable itself, you can build a keyboard from a tiny IC, you can definitely add logging to that circuit, especially the big powered light up ones. You can host a webserver from this cable, not the board, the chip fits inside the freaking plug: https://shop.hak5.org/products/o-mg-cable This isnt even big news, we all know this stuff over there. Its kid stuff.
You say you can find an OS without a backdoor but the truth is you dont know how to verify that, you're creating trust based on rumor. Thats a foul. Even if you designed your OS from the board up, like a phone with only an MCU and modules for GSM and GPS and a cheap ass TFT touchscreen, you'd still never REALLY know what was running in that TFT screens driver IC. Engineers can hide anything and are sneaky af. You can put antennas inside ICs, dorks like you will say "its just a chip" and dismiss the radio waves it emits.
Pay attention, a lot of prophecies are coming true and they arent the nice fluffy ones. The average consumer of modern devices is a sitting duck.
wrathfulmomes ago
You can, but who do you think snuck into your house to do that?
KillYourTelevision ago
not required.
Hands you free promotional usb stick
You get the idea.