Wait until you're targeted with APT's. You eventually come around to the realization that someone can royally fuck you any time they want & there's no where to run or hide.
I can tell you from experience that it's not fun at all.
Imagine having your motherboard infected with a rootkit & having your operating system live on top of another operating system. Imagine using a Linux livecd creator to install different distributions & for some reason no matter which installer you try, nothing gives you any options when trying to install the OS to your system. No package selection. Then realizing no matter what you're installing, you're basically just using the same OS skinned to pretend you're using other distros (command line tools & all except certain distros end up being lazy attempts like a KDE based distro that's supposed to look cool ends up having a really shitty barebones KDE environment upon install.
I'm only touching on a small aspect of like 2 - 3 years of being fucked with starting with all of my computers & then eventually being fucked with in bars & shit escalating over time.
MFW people realize that -- since 2009 -- every single Intel-based machine already has exactly what you're talking about: a ring -3 OOB coprocessor that can read and alter the entire contents of memory, framebuffers, network stack (it even has its own TCP/IP stack!), I/O & peripherals...
People are more than happy to run a blackbox for alphabet agencies because they don't have the balls to give up "muh convenience".
Being an IT guy of 25+ years, I can confirm this is spot on.
Wait until you're targeted with APT's. You eventually come around to the realization that someone can royally fuck you any time they want & there's no where to run or hide.
I can tell you from experience that it's not fun at all.
APT's?
Advanced persistent threats...
Imagine having your motherboard infected with a rootkit & having your operating system live on top of another operating system. Imagine using a Linux livecd creator to install different distributions & for some reason no matter which installer you try, nothing gives you any options when trying to install the OS to your system. No package selection. Then realizing no matter what you're installing, you're basically just using the same OS skinned to pretend you're using other distros (command line tools & all except certain distros end up being lazy attempts like a KDE based distro that's supposed to look cool ends up having a really shitty barebones KDE environment upon install.
I'm only touching on a small aspect of like 2 - 3 years of being fucked with starting with all of my computers & then eventually being fucked with in bars & shit escalating over time.
I'd like to hear more about this and why were you targeted.
MFW people realize that -- since 2009 -- every single Intel-based machine already has exactly what you're talking about: a ring -3 OOB coprocessor that can read and alter the entire contents of memory, framebuffers, network stack (it even has its own TCP/IP stack!), I/O & peripherals...
People are more than happy to run a blackbox for alphabet agencies because they don't have the balls to give up "muh convenience".
It's only a matter of time. This is literally the bar to penetration. Time.
Ok, I get the APT's thing now but how does it translate to being messed with in bars?