they also force you to give a recovery account. i’m thinking microsoft’s hands are tied in this matter, it might be the government forcing a kyc strategy
A particular foreign nation, on the other hand...
The current batch of elite have come up in a place where they have no real incentive to act in any way except that of their choosing. They're also exceedingly thin-skinned. If they think they can get away with ruining people who criticize them online, they'll do so.
I'm as big of a Windows and ME hater as they come, but I'm not aware of any proven backdoors in either. Especially ME, which has been thoroughly reverse-engineered by the security community by this point. The only 'backdoor' discovered was the undocumented killswitch command that disables it after initialization.
And _NSAKEY... There is no evidence that it was ever part of a backdoor. But it is good for a laugh.
And yes, this is not equivalent to what the parent said, but your reaction should be similar.
This is exactly the kind of FUD I'm pushing back against. You just casually mention this like it's some established fact. Do you have any proof of this?
Surely it would be extremely easy to verify, given that anyone can set up a Windows 10/11 VM with mitmproxy and see every outgoing connection. I myself have quite a number of those VMs for various application-related RE projects, and let me tell you, I've never noticed every single one of my outgoing keystrokes present in the logs.
You'd think it might stand out...
Links? Activists say the opposite, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine#Assert...
Like I said, ME has been literally almost completely everse engineered and no one's found evidence of it being a backdoor.
everything in that article could legitimately just be attack vector reduction