• BobGnarley@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Man I just hate that you can’t disable the PSP spyware bullshit. It’s the only reason I don’t use them

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        3 months ago

        Its a “trusted” execution environment for the system. So basically, it has access over your entire system and there’s no way to know what it is doing because it is proprietary and many people and third party security groups have expressed concerns about it before and asked them to open source the code that runs it and they will not do it.

        Intel has a similar system the Intel Management Engine but you can disable that after bootup and also run it on open source bios so that it is essentially neutered. You cannot do that with AMD.

        The NSA disables and removes Intel ME on their systems, so it seems like there’s a very real threat from these proprietary systems that have complete and entire control over every aspect of the machine and software running it.

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          3 months ago

          So you called it spyware but now you say you dont know what it is doing. So which one is it?