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>>chei0a+(OP)
I really could do without "considered harmful" titles. x86 has been one of the most influential technologies of all time and a clickbait title doesn't do it justice imo.

>>n0us+l2
My main problem is with the term x86 because the article conflates form-factor issues (people can spy on you with the microphone in your phone, even the old analog telephone or tablet or game controller, Amazon Echo,...) with x86 issues (some real problems with the architecture in general) and the ME issue which is an intel thing.

>>PaulHo+z7
> and the ME issue which is an intel thing.

> But is the situation much different on AMD-based x86 platforms? It doesn’t seem so! The problems related to boot security seem to be similar to those we discussed in this paper. And it seems AMD has an equivalent of Intel ME also, just disguised as Platform Security Processor (PSP)