Mnem667

Update: Corporate boot lickers are ironically thick in this forum> Lol. look dude, since it’s essentially just me here, I can only assume I’m the presumed “boot licker”.

I have multiple pieces of retro tech hanging around here, from Palm devices, to an IBM XT, to Ataris, to a laptop that I just realized today has windows 10 still on dual-boot. I forgot because I have debian or something installed on the SSD (windows on the MMC). I don’t want to run android OS, but given the current state of things, using my phone with a custom ROM has to suffice.

All that to say, I appreciate your stance, and the investigation. I understand where you’re coming from, and I get the general concept. I don’t want closed-source hardware either. There’s a ton of personal reasons why not, and none of them are compatible with the corporate interests of today.

But, for your mental and social health, you should really maybe take a step back, clear your mind, and read some of the things that are here. The horse your riding on is so high, I’m not even sure you can see the grass, let alone touch it. The intentional use of inflammatory language, the not actually answering a question, but running rampant on a separate diatribe, and the fact that you’re about a hop skip and jump from actually saying “DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH!” is making me immediately not give a rats about what your intentions are because I don’t want to interact with you. At this point, I’m willing to bet that you refer to the general public as “normies”. You are only a stone’s throw from a Truther or other fun conspiracy nut.

Block me if you’d like, ain’t no skin off my nose. But you really should try to extract yourself from the rabbit hole, take some some to reassess where you are and where you are going, and maybe just try being a little less abrasive and self-centered.

Well, my apologies for not being hip to the lingo. I appreciate your enthusiasm, but damn. I just wanted to know if there was some nefarious thing about the PSP that I had not read about yet.
Instead I get a a diatribe of self indulgent sarcasm.
So I suppose the answer is “no”. It’s just a scary black box that could potentially be a source of some data collection or used as a backdoor, but no one in the last 8 years has published any such papers.
Now I am aware, and my curiosity is sated.

Yeah. I am just curious about the implications. There’s been a couple of vulnerabilities reported and patches, but anything that would indicate “spy chip”? I would normally assume some security researcher would have said something by now.

Do you have some credible source for the “spy chip” claim?

Pretty sure no legitimate nicotine vapor devices ever used or contained vitamin e.
Nor will they.
Sure, there’s some unknowns in the industry, but it’s been around for 20 years now. The basic forms of e liquid are all GRAS, and unless you are burning the cap out of your coil or using nonstandard ingredients, this is a much safer means of nicotine compared to smoking.
No one in their mind will say it’s safe or healthy, but it’s a means of lowering risk.