Worth to try...

Security flaws?
Easy. Google play services.

That chip is fucking scary, and it's necessary for the phone to function, too. Google code running on your device, with full access to hardware, and completely invisible even to a custom OS.

Fucking never.

@Root so basically its flashed onto micocontroller and written in c?

@zemaitis Read up on TrustZone and/or the Intel Management Engine. Both this and the latter are based on the former.

@Root Apple had its t2 chip for a while now...

@Gregozor2121 Also worrying.

And Intel CPUs have been backdoored for years now.

@Root In what sense?

@Gregozor2121 Intel Management Engine. Hardware godmode, basically. It's a black box with total control over your machine, and actually built into the circuitry of the cpu. Despite being a black box, people have found and exploited flaws in it, allowing them to gain remote access, and do things like disabling cou fans in servers.

It runs in a trusted execution environment separate from the OS, and denies the OS access to its memory, etc. When it is performing its tasks, it's scheduled first, so the OS is halted for the duration. It has complete access to hardware, can e.g. send and receive packets, change bios settings (such as fan control), read/write memory (even kernel, etc.

It is designed, ostensibly, for managing fleets of servers. But that doesn't require something literally hardwired in the cpu, nor something with that level of access, or that separate from everything else.

@Root They might have control over my PC but i dont think i have anything interesting for them on it anyway. Hiding in a plain sight is a powerful concept.

@Gregozor2121 Ugh. You're one of those.

Yep, everything is totally safe if you're never anything but average. Awesome goal right there.

@Root Out of curiosity, do amd processors have a similar 'feature'?

Why are the words 'prize' and 'reward' always quoted?

@Emphiliis Probably, but I don't know.

I can't imagine the NSA not leaning extremely heavily on the only other desktop CPU manufacturer out there.