> Especially ME, which has been thoroughly reverse-engineered by the security community by this point.

Links? Activists say the opposite, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine#Assert...

I think you're right, and the solution is security through compartmentalization. See: https://qubes-os.org.

Not the parent, but have you heard of Snowden leaks? Also this from the old times: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY

Snowden says nothing about backdoor'ed Windows.

And _NSAKEY... There is no evidence that it was ever part of a backdoor. But it is good for a laugh.

It's safe to assume that Windows is backdoored, as it's closed, not audiatable and is a part of PRISM. It's not a proof, but this is how good opsec works.

Also, you can find a lot of nerds on Mastodon, PeerTube, and other non-mainstream, federated social media platforms that were not captured by the finance people (and cannot be thanks to their distributed design).

Exactly but because I suppose that the author is conflating tech founders on twitter (refuse to call it X) and other standard platforms which all share the same playbook and conflating it to all

Although I would wish for less overlap with tech-bros but it is sadly what it is and there are ways to mitigate it by being on more nerd friendly websites like hackernews.

Also, one more observation I wish to share is that not all nerds are tech product creators and neither should they be. Some just create for the sake of creation and IMO there is long way to go after creation as well and the nerd culture doesn't have standardized playbook as compared to grift culture.

Basically the nerd culture is immeasurable and is driven by it and the grift culture is measurable and is also driven by it. It's just that tech has more overlap but if trillions of dollars were thrown in physics instead of AI (quantum computing?), I would consider physics to have a lot of tech-bro culture as well.

Seems like you may be interested in this petition: https://publiccode.eu

Such phones also exist today. Have a look at Librem 5 and Pinephone.

Then you may want to pay a bit more and get a Librem 5.

> I would jump on a modern N95

Here you go: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5.

Use NoScript. Worked like a charm.

Why? e2e encryption and self-hosting exist.