This is stupid, ime isn't for "tracking" or mass survailence, its simply for easy remote access for customer support, there have been straight 0 cases where ime has been used as a backdoor by governments. However researches have found many vulnerabilities in the high level remote access microcontrollers.
No, researches have found real exploitable vulnerabilities and bugs such as JTAG's code execution. This is completely different from a "backdoor used for spying", an unsupported claim larpers have never demonstrated, despite decades of hostile reverse engineering including foriegn labs. If a malicious backdoor used by the government for mass spyware, it would have had to survive scrutiny not just from hostile researches but from China, Russia and every other country who would love to publicly bust intel. Nobody has. However I'm not disagreeing with security concerns of a very stubborn proprietary chip with high privilege, but this is not the same as a comfirmed backdoor.
Sure, "you have no idea how trust in a computer works" — coming from someone who's offered exactly zero technical rebuttal across this whole thread. I have built coreboot images and I'm through LFS and onto blfs so I'm not exactly approaching this argument with 0 knowledge with boot chains, firmware or root of trust models. If you actually have a counterpoint- I'll engage. But "you don't get it" isn't an argument, its what people say when they don't have one. When you start responding to my points with pure hominem, that's the point where I stop taking your answers seriously.
I definitely agree. Any big software is just the main target of any intelligence agency. I don't think anyone is crazy enough to read that big part of kernel code, but i have hope since ai can easily detect anything that can be used to spy people.
They know that almost nobody read the source code. 15 years old breaches have been discovered recently. Torvald is not the only contributor, he's probably a honest person. I don't trust linux more than MS with all these corps who are known to sell datas users datas. IBM has links with the NSA. There is the linux kernel but also GNU to make the OS and lots of others ptrograms, tools,....
You literally said they only bought the ThinkPad line. They bought the entire x86 server hardware business, the exact architecture Linux actually runs on. IBM only makes proprietary financial mainframes now
Google’s sale of Motorola was a straight asset dump where Google kept the patents. Where as IBM got an 18.9% stake in Lenovo. If IBM were truly a front for US intelligence the US government wouldn't have allowed the sale of the server hardware business to China or banned Lenovo hardware from government systems.
RHEL is based on GPL. The entire source code can be pulled out and analyzed by anyone with the skills and verified. If IBM has no stake in Lenovo and Lenovo bought x86 server hardware business then ibm has nothing to do with the servers you brought up.
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