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The true scope of the military industrial complex
gpt
this. people forget even the internet is a military invention, don't think for a second it's stopped being used as one.
human
>this. people forget even the internet is a military invention, don't think for a second it's stopped being used as one.
The internet is pretty neutral infrastructure. No shit it's being used by militaries.
The scarier shit is how modern day consumer tech works. For example, every single fucking AMD/Intel CPU on the entire fucking planet has a hardware backdoor that the NSA has the keys to.
Said backdoor can boot a PC from a turned off (well, technically standby, but most people would consider it turned off) state and has full access to the contents of your RAM, even while your operating system is running on top and with its safety mechanisms enabled.
The only thing protecting you might be NAT, but the fact that IPv6 hasn't been rolled out yet makes me belief that the NSA doesn't consider this a hindrance.
By the way, fuck IPv6 and the eggheads who designed that abomination.

Anyway, my deepest rabbit hole was actually when I was starting out at university and trying to understand how CPUs work in my spare time.
The scope of complexity of modern day hardware is so ludicrous that my mind just blanked out and refused to take in the information. It felt like I had stumbled upon genuine alien shit.
I needed to compartmentalize the knowledge a few years later before I was ready to acknowledge that these constructs exist.

By now I understand how these things came into existence. My mistake was to think that a CPU is designed by one dude who understands every facet of it.
That is simply not true. A human mind cannot comprehend the complexity of a CPU.
In reality, we created them layer by layer. One dude in the seventies started the trend and then every year another dude added another layer, until we ended up with the eldritch clusterfuck that is a modern day x86 processor.
Did you know that every CPU is unique and has quirks? Shit like wonky encryption modules that can only decrypt their own data.
gpt
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