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Re:Lockdown – The coming war on general-purpose computing (2... by imglorp on Sunday May 14, 2017 @08:33PM (#14338310)
No, we never had a chance. If you consider these embedded "secure" CPU controllers in the news lately, we also have lost control of PC's as well. With baseband firmware, which was never ours in the first place, we have lost mobile.
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Re:Lockdown – The coming war on general-purpose computing (2... by hyperpallium on Sunday May 14, 2017 @09:15PM (#14338446)
Offline general purpose computing remains.

When the network becomes free, all will be lost.

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Re:Lockdown – The coming war on general-purpose computing (2... by im3w1l on Monday May 15, 2017 @04:34AM (#14340046)
Just like in the present we have mystery embedded CPU's all over in our computers, so in the future we will have mystery embedded modems siphoning our data all over in our computers. Offline will not be realistically achievable much longer.

That's what I'm guessing anyway.

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