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Old school tech is ridiculously easy to hack. New tech is much more hardened. The only advantage old tech has is that it doesn’t have peripherals that connect to the internet. At the end of the day the most secure computer is a new one, that isn’t on the internet, and is physically secure.


Unless its been tampered with in the factory or in transit for delivery, the NSA has been known to modify hardware in transit for spying purposes.


So its either have an old system that is trivially compromised or have a new system that has the potential of having an unknown backdoor.


Old computers don't have whole computers built into the motherboards running inaccessible operating systems that can't be switched off.


POWER9 doesn't either. I'd buy a laptop with that for 3~4k next summer if it existed...


Only for people who know what they’re doing. If a hacker faces hardware they’ve never seen before it will take some time to read up on it, especially if datasheets and such is not available online.

I fully concede it’s security by obscurity, though. A technician possessing any experience with that hardware is probably going to make short work of its security measures.




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