Firmware and microcode are just software unless you are talking about a Nexus Intruder Program style attack; in which case you are fucked even if you solder your own hardware. You’ll need to figure out how to bootstrap your own lithography without using any existing computers, as they could be subtly subverting any hardware that you made. (This was the ultimate weapon against Soviet computers after all)

If you bootstrap your software from source code and use white listing at the kernel level and in your interpreters. Then there is no place where spyware could exist and run.

It is untapped for countless good reasons. Solar panels on the other hand are along the lines of the trouble of a tiled roof. Makes things more expensive but doesn’t actively try to rip a hole through the water barrier.

Disagree. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118214/

Also, depending on how you define a “recent” movie. You can get them for as little as $0.25 or as much as $300. Heck the most expensive movie that my husband bought was old not new.

$0.99 is more than a month of streaming?

Why does anyone bother with streaming services when you can buy DVDs cheaper and own the media forever and the collection only accumulates over time? Kodi is awesome.

No, most implementations generate only a single private key which if you are not using a quantum resistant system, means a single breach impacts all other systems. So no, it is not more secure. If you need more security than a password, hard tokens exist for that explicit purpose. If you are securing nuclear weapons, crack cards with single use true random in a secured safe exist for that purpose.

But notice that the password is only used for that one website/service. It doesn’t impact anything else. (Unless you are in one of those corporate environments where they pass your hashed password around like candy or do a single sign-on for everything)

A 4096 byte long randomly generated password stored in Keepassxc is plenty secure for every thing that doesn’t require a hard token.

Odd thought but what exists to stop someone from taking the money and giving matching identifiers to their friends who then take up all the spots and then they just blame ICE for blocking access to ICE.

TekWars was absolute trash

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0108953/

No and if you mistakenly think that is true; you have deeper issues in your relationship.

The first and last program that your Linux system runs, unless you replace it with a different program that will effectively do the exact same thing.

Ranked choice voting or STAR voting mandatory for all elections. Ironically Iran could make it a precondition for peace.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0258153/

Linux, just like Microsoft’s.

So weak, libreboot or gtfo

Oh, they definitely can. But one can choose to accidentally make programming mistakes

There were devices back in the 1990s that did exactly that (no disclaimers though)

The winner by far is Gnu Emacs