On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 00:09:06 -0400 grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com> wrote:
Instead of doing that, seems like everyone bought the "security is number one" kool-aid Intel spun out during Meltdown / Spectre / etc. Fools.
that's because from the point of view of ordinary retards, the 'arguments' are perfectly sound. the government is good and the source of all justice, and intel and any other big business exist only to 'serve customers' so, given a supremely just government like the amerikkkan government and the amazing 'free market' firms that the govt created (by 'protecting human rights') no sane person would doubt their good intentions and technical skills. also, open source security might be better in some ideal scenario, but close source works pretty well for the industrial mafia. Of course closed source stuff can be reverse engineered given enough resources, but the vast majorith of people don't have those resources.