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> Freedom is expensive.

I'm willing to pay that price for owning something that I know cannot spy on me, does not have remote kill switches I can't control, and is completely serviceable from bottom to top by any third party.

It really is sad that these requirements are now expensive. They used to be taken for granted.

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But if there's one thing we learnt the last few years, it's that we were never able to take those things for granted in the first place. You were never free of threat of spyware or kill switches. If anything, we have gotten much better at security than ever before.

Security from whom? Malware has always been fairly easy to avoid as a consumer. Built-in backdoors? What do you do about that?

Intel ME is relatively new, but it is also probably worth noting that it does not phone home until software asks it to be activated.

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