MajesticLion
Veteran
Aside from the obvious thought policing going on and the self-discipline that every adult has to develop anlongside it, there's a necessary boundary that needs to be defined: where does private thought end and public domain begin?
If you buy the hardware, pay for the software and jot down your thoughts and never post them online...do private companies(and their big data customers) still have the right to parse through those documents to get into your head? Is all software simply leased and no ownership is conferred whatsoever? Even in open-source situations? Where does the line exist, where should it exist?
If you buy the hardware, pay for the software and jot down your thoughts and never post them online...do private companies(and their big data customers) still have the right to parse through those documents to get into your head? Is all software simply leased and no ownership is conferred whatsoever? Even in open-source situations? Where does the line exist, where should it exist?
and with the right software(which Intel & the NSA has), you can wake it up over a network connection and potientally spy on everyone with a Intel branded computer. ME has full access to memory (without the owner-controlled CPU cores having any knowledge), and has full access to the TCP/IP stack and can send and receive network packets independently of the operating system, thus bypassing firewalls .Hell, even Google is trying to get rid of it off of their systems and NSA request custom chips directly from Intel without it due to concerns. Yet the average consumer cant turn it off.Its closed source & operates all-by-itself and separate from the main processor, the BIOS, and the Operating system (OS),
(it does however interact with the BIOS and OS kernel). In which it operates at ring -3 privilage level 
