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can these chips be used to spying and identifying people

The summary is probably... Only those with access to the chip masks, or an equally serious amount of reverse engineering gear, knows what goes into a chipset. Therefore anything is possible. And if you're not proxying the output of suspected spy systems through your own masks to validate them, well... you could very well be screwed :) The rest is documented stuff you can read in any spec sheet. Part of that material is indeed new firmware capabilities and ways to lock it down, or not. Don't run windows or closed source stuff if you're concerned about what it might phone home about. UUID's, serials, MAC's, your data, etc. If the platform + OS can't be trusted, neither can any app running on it, including Tor. Act accordingly. Nothing here related to Tor.... your questions should go to the author of that post or comp.risks. _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE