What does it say that there are potentially hundreds of undocumented
   instructions on your processor?
   What does it say that many common attacks are a result of too much
   emphasis on performance or a result of laziness? Some wifi routers
   crash if their session table is exhausted. The Mirai botnet wouldn't
   have happened if a good common library was used. What good is a
   computer if you can't allow it to be accessed by untrustworthy people
   without null result?
   Invisible Things Labs had put out two papers on how x86 and state is
   both harmful. Nevermind that the original computers used relays,
   switches, and wires to be programmed. Basically anything more complex
   than a clock is a computer, although those were called sequencers by
   NASA. Maybe we should return to literal fuses for microprocessors (or
   just substitute NOT gates on one layer of the processor).
   We are moving into a future with cameras, microphones, and manually set
   clocks in everything.
   No idea why everything needs a clock that you have to set after the
   power goes out.
   If anyone thinks consumer choice is a thing, point out the clocks.
   No idea why TAILS automatically sets the clock.
   [1]https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/29/intel_management_
   engine_can_be_disabled/
   I have paid for a security feature that the government demanded and I
   cannot use? On the other hand, a disproportionate amount of die area
   was allocated towards AES-NI right after side channel attacks were
   discovered.
   In the end, you can only trust something you can understand, otherwise
   you are trusting the word of someone else.
   What is a good future to work towards? Corporate call centers using
   thin clients with two VMs; one VM allowed access to the intranet, and
   the other only to the DMZ and the internet? Binney-grade privacy
   protections of consumer data?
   It doesn't matter.
   Privacy is gone. Although for past decades, private detectives were
   always able to get others to look up information for them, Pellicano is
   a great example. The set of information available to the powerful has
   always been different to those of the plebians. It just simply got
   worse. But if you just use this Tor exit node run by Romanian organized
   crime... you will be much more secure.
   But I have good news everybody:
   [2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11407536
   >1: I asked someone involved with WebRTC. They suggested "maybe a page
   wants to communicate with your fridge directly" as a serious use of
   WebRTC data channels.
   [3]http://www.webcitation.org/6FnFZK9LU?url=http://larry.masinter.net/
   RFC 2324 "Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0)." L.
   Masinter. April 1, 1998. This has a serious purpose -- it identifies
   many of the ways in which HTTP has been extended inappropriately.
   ??? are you all victims of fetal alcohol syndrome ???

References

   1. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/29/intel_management_engine_can_be_disabled/
   2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11407536
   3. http://www.webcitation.org/6FnFZK9LU?url=http://larry.masinter.net/