5 Apr
2016
5 Apr
'16
11:53 p.m.
Modern Intel and AMD x86 chips cannot even boot up without various pieces of locked-down proprietary binary firmware. Effectively this is an OS-within-an-OS, that retains ultimate control of the processor, regardless of what the owner of the machine might want. <http://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=x86-Uncorrectable-Freedom>