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It's fact that it's possible, the question is just if Google is doing it. I know some apps that have been proven to track mouse movement to identify users and prevent botting. They want to identify users because it's against ToS to have multiple accounts and also to prevent banned users from making new accounts. Tracking mouse movement is extremely accurate way to uniquely identify users. Google would have no problems doing this if they wanted to, the question is just if they are doing that. I think it would be coping to say they aren't but that's my opinion based on my perspective on big tech and google.

Everyone reading this should start to contact websites/companies who use cloudflare and tell them in simple and few words that it's a problem and link them to a video or article that explains more, maybe even to this HN topic. We are not many, maybe 1-2% of their users/customers I keep reading people saying but I have in the past been able to get big tech companies to change to a friendlier tech. You would be surprised how effective it is to contact them about it. Maybe they have a tech support who already has same opinion as you but they can't make any change until a customer makes a complaint about it, then they happily see it as their opporunity to finally make a change.

That's same for almost all surveillance/tracking tech. It's always trivial for criminals/abusers to bypass. The surveillance is just about controlling the sheep.

To become a freelancer you first need to be a professional with a lot of work experience. Then you can start doing some freelance on the side and make it grow. It's very difficult to start your career as freelance.

To find part time job you first need to be able to find a job at all.

Basically no matter what, it all begins with getting work experience, probably full time, then after that you can start looking for part time or freelance.

So the charger won't work without the data wire and it could destroy the laptop. It's so crazy because I've seen in these tech communities people saying it's recommended to cut the data wires and everyone is upvoting it. I guess that's another popular misconception going around that it's generally fine to cut a data wire.

But my questions aren't extremely general, i even asked very specifically if you are supposed to attach an external programmer to the component like keyboard or cam etc but you can't even answer that. You can't even give one example. Are you saying there is nothing at all in common with different device models like camera model b and camera model c? You don't physically manipulate with them in any way? Don't attach anything or what? Or do you shine a light on one model and breath on another? When you can't even make one example that makes it hard to believe you. You are just constantly deflecting and refusing to explain. It just seems like you are spreading FUD when you say it can be done but wont explain how. I'm not even asking for full step by step instruction, just a simple overview of what kind of process it is in general.

These are the type of vague answers i said i didn't want because they are not helpful. How do i know if you really know what you are talking about? No explanations or links to sources. "depends on the device" is almost not an answer at all.

BIOS password does help if they need to be able to boot from usb drive to flash firmware. Or do you know another way? Again, not talking about boot rom.

How would it be done externally? Is it done same way as flashing the boot rom? You just need to know where the chip is for the other components? No 0-days needed? Or do you need a 0-day to do this? Is that why you think only foreign intelligence agencies are the ones who can do this? Also assume that the bios is password protected and it's configured in bios to not boot from a USB drive.

I asked about 0-day because I dont think anyone would use that on me. So if I know that it can only be done with a 0-day then I would practically be secure.

The first paragraph you made doesn't sound so convincing though with mostly "probably" and no source or explanation other than intel has put a lot of effort into protecting the boot rom and EC. If you or someone could elaborate further that would be great.

good answer, I will read more about uefi bootkits and blacklotus. It also reminds me that recently bootkitty uefi bootkit was in news. i saw a video about it a couple days ago.

Is it just from userspace you flash these firmware (other than boot rom)? Or can you flash externally as well if you have physical access?

This also means that just like you avoid a lot of malware by going to linux instead of windows which is what all hackers build their malware for, you can probably also avoid a lot of these firmware bootkits by flashing coreboot instead of having UEFI.

I think most people already know that air pollution is bad for health. The question is how big part in all these deaths did the air pollution have. Are those face masks people use to "protect" themselves from covid effective at protecting from air pollution? I don't even know if asking these questions is worth it when there is so much censorship.