Since the first time that I saw this here in HN I've been sharing it with several people around me. This including CS students, CS professors and non-technical people who only asked "how does a computer work?". I only say "just type 'cpu.land' and read that". This is one of the best things that I've found here.
Because of the SMI/ACPI/Intel Management Engine/AMD Secure Technology/UEFI, and optionally AMT-complex, where usually only parts of can be deactivated partially, but never all of it.
It's actually more bad than the above mentioned ARM-stuff, which is misinformed(maybe because of raspberry piish broadcomisms, or locked down dumbphones), because on ARM, you either can disable that stuff, or even can run your own instead.
For me personally I was surprised given the name that very little is about cpus and most of the material is in the operating system.
Fortunely there is still x86
Anyway, it will be maybe a few years until the governments will get the idea of enforcing their own management engines into our hardware :/
No, you don't.
Because of the SMI/ACPI/Intel Management Engine/AMD Secure Technology/UEFI, and optionally AMT-complex, where usually only parts of can be deactivated partially, but never all of it.
It's actually more bad than the above mentioned ARM-stuff, which is misinformed(maybe because of raspberry piish broadcomisms, or locked down dumbphones), because on ARM, you either can disable that stuff, or even can run your own instead.
https://www.trustedfirmware.org/projects/op-tee/
https://github.com/OP-TEE
https://docs.kernel.org/next/tee/op-tee.html
Being able to explain something this simply usually requires a very good understanding of the entire subject.