Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+l...@mega-nerd.com> writes: > Compare this with a laptop. If you buy a new laptop and are sufficiently > paranoid you can use widely available software tools to monitor all > network connections from that laptop to the wider internet. >
I don't think so -- unless you have a laptop flashed with a free software BIOS / boot firmware that you can inspect and modify. There are a handful of dated possibilities out there like that (Thinkpad x60 models that support coreboot, Lemote Yeelongs), but not the vast majority of laptops. The situation with laptops actually seems pretty analogous to the worst category of smartphones (those where the baseband firmware shares the main CPU and RAM). -john -- John Sullivan | Executive Director, Free Software Foundation GPG Key: 61A0963B | http://status.fsf.org/johns | http://fsf.org/blogs/RSS Do you use free software? Donate to join the FSF and support freedom at <http://www.fsf.org/register_form?referrer=8096>. -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
