Anduril Partners with Qualcomm to Build Laptops on US Soil

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5 points·smurda··7 comments

And, with monitoring companies like Flock doing so well, and a thirst for intel within every US administration, why wouldn't this have backdoors for Anduril built right in?

Sadly BIOS, boot and CPUs are already quite insecure for the operator today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpXkJqTAY5Y https://libreboot.org/faq.html https://github.com/unnideeraj/article_backdoor https://hackaday.com/2024/08/18/reverse-engineering-the-amd-...

These are decades old, known vulnerabilities. So you can extrapolate the more clever, hidden exploits.

It first takes getting our colleauges/people to care about not buying backdoored products - knowledge of these is pretty low and people don't flock to alternatives yet.

What about the display? There are no OLED or LCD factories outside of Asia. Or are they simply assembling foreign parts (knock-down kit) into a laptop?

Anduril BlueChip (6+5 points, 3 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50261059 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50260323

Bad for Qualcomm's brand image.

> Bad for Qualcomm's brand image.

You must be unfamiliar with Qualcomm's brand.

Why is it bad for Qualcomm's brand image?

You know they call Intel? They call it an “arms dealer” because they want their chips to be everywhere. Qualcomm wants the same.

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