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RE: There Will Be No Escape Without Permission
Open source is free of backdoors. As for '*they', I've heard all kinds of whistleblowers but none about backdoors that record everything before encryption. The closest thing would be from the Wingmakers Disclosure/ Ancient Arrow Project where Professor Andrew talks about a computer program that can expose how any other program runs and replicate it and potentially use to spoof and such, but that's not hardware as far as I can tell, which is what you consider is compromised.
https://www.cnet.com/news/nsa-reportedly-installing-spyware-on-us-made-hardware/
https://www.eteknix.com/nsa-may-backdoors-built-intel-amd-processors/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/23/nsa-director-defends-backdoors-into-technology-companies
https://www.forbes.com/sites/steveblank/2013/07/15/your-computer-may-already-be-hacked-nsa-inside/#211ef43d19d4
https://www.infoworld.com/article/2608141/snowden--the-nsa-planted-backdoors-in-cisco-products.html
https://www.wired.com/2015/03/researchers-uncover-way-hack-bios-undermine-secure-operating-systems/
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140526/08355827362/do-personal-computers-come-with-nsa-surveillance-devices-built-in-as-standard.shtml
I could find more on this, but I've seen enough to satisfy me that those who would spy on us are, and through the hardware as well.
Pump your breaks, at best they bugged some firmware. Considering the tech community and it's tenacity to hack and mod everything, hardware that was designed to spy or anything like that would be identified quickly and exposed, at best, compromised hardware was not done by Intel or Amd like you seem to falsely believe, but by those who had or have access to the hardware.
Could be falsely, but might not be. Gives me peace of mind to assume preemptively it is more likely than not given their penchant. Not sure how chips and such aren't hardware, but the fact the articles I linked to use the word will lean in the direction it is. It is a given I am ignorant on much of this, so will tread forward cautiously assuming the worst (and as mentioned, given their track record most likely).
The smoking gun for me would be any such hardware that you speculate is exposed by a credible publisher in a transparent manner.
Fair enough. We all must decide what is credible for ourselves.