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Squizzy@lemmy.world 13 hours agoWhere is the support for this? I believe they would but as I understand it they cut cloud services, not core functionality.
hector@lemmy.today 13 hours ago
It is a long standing rumour. Not just in these in a lot of their gear. I believe it.
It’s also rumoured, going way back over 20 years, that the us has kill switches in a majority of the world’s computers.
elephantium@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I lean towards discounting both rumors. I think the temptation to use said kill-switches would prove too great to resist, particularly for the authoritarian types involved.
We saw this a lot with provisions of the “PATRIOT Act”. It was championed as tools needed to combat terrorists and claimed to be reserved for such cases. In actuality, it was used to go after people running fan sites for sci-fi tv shows, among other things.
If such a kill switch existed in computer hardware, I’m sure it would have been used already. I’m less sure about a kill switch in the planes. On one hand, that’s a pretty situational tool, and you wouldn’t want to play that card until you really needed it.
OTOH, we didn’t hear about threats to throw the kill switch during the bluster over Greenland. If they had one, I think it would have been part of that bluster.
LesserAbe@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Wow if its rumoured it must be true
tidderuuf@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I remember working with an old dude 10 years ago who pointed at the CPU in a computer and said “the government can turn that off whenever they want”. He died of COVID so take his quote with what value you want.
Squizzy@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Meh, they are whores but they dont produce shit. They get your information through invasive NSA actions and capitalist acumbaggery.