>In addition, the team is working with renowned art historian and curator Dr. Lowery Stokes Sims, who is providing additional mentorship and professional development.
In art as in politics - nothing says grassroots like the additional mentorship and professional development by a renowned establishment member.
I recently implemented my own npm vulnerability audit tool for the CIO department of a major org - it just adds 'vulnerability' in red next to any npm-based project in their spreadsheet.
Practically speaking, that's the only approach that can.
Although it's often hard to tell, most software developers aspire to being treated like professionals rather than specialized serfs, and part of being a professional is accepting responsibility for your work.
Of course it doesn't preclude holding their employers responsible as well.
This is a losing proposition that will only lend credence to the inherently violent opt-out approach to data collection.
Instead how about a do-not-hire-or-collaborate-with registry of the individual contributors participating in projects that employ those tactics and see how they like trying to opt out of it.
What are the odds that the chips that don't feature AMT/ME don't have it physically as opposed to it just being crippled in firmware ? In which case if one is worried about government backdoors this should alleviate exactly zero concerns.
Something that is (crucially) missing from the article but appears in the paper: his ability to read words describing numbers like "five" remains in tact, and so is his ability to read Roman numerals.
Jeff Bezos probably also can't promise they won't use startups AWS usage to find out as much as they can about their business in an M&A or just competitive analysis scenario.
Half of HN personally responsible for doing exactly this kind of thing for a living, shifting in their chair uncomfortably... I umm... just doing my job...
>In addition, the team is working with renowned art historian and curator Dr. Lowery Stokes Sims, who is providing additional mentorship and professional development.
In art as in politics - nothing says grassroots like the additional mentorship and professional development by a renowned establishment member.