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What is a well known 'public secret' in the industry you work in that the majority of outsiders are unaware of? (lemm.ee)

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[-] const_void@lemmy.ml 42 points 1 year ago

Your PC runs firmware written by some companies with really sloppy engineering and security practices. Whenever possible opt for a computer that runs open source firmware (coreboot).

[-] fubo@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Windows vendors make extra money by putting spyware on your machine. That's a big chunk of why a Dell machine is cheaper than a machine from a trustworthy Linux vendor: they have a secondary revenue stream that is adversarial to you as a person.

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Which is why you install Linux over it right away.

[-] ilmagico@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Dell also sells laptops with Ubuntu preinstalled (and I still wipe it and install Manjaro or whatever, but...)

[-] Mindlight@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Du you have any like about bios and sloppy engineering that I can read up on

[-] const_void@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Just one example:

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/supermicro-ibm-servers-easily-backdoored-research,38697.html

[-] Mindlight@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The article you're linking to starts with security researchers who installed their own backdoor which went undetected. Then it continues with a warning about the dangers of not being able to check if the firmware actually is a firmware actually from the vendor and not a manipulated one.

While I'm pro open source and agree that there are dangers not knowing what firmware is used I fail to see how an open source firmware / bios world be immune to be switched out.

What am I missing here?

this post was submitted on 11 Sep 2023

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