yuli

iirc the intel management engine can be disabled through some weird fuckery, not sure if the same can be done for amd’s equivalent. if you custom flash a bios and run an open source os compiled by a trusted source, i think you got most potential backdoors covered (although the cpu microcode might still be an issue).

skimming through coreutils’ copy.c, emit_verbose is called on line 2627 while copy_reg is called on line 3103 (in the implementation of copy_internal). at least on my machine, touch /tmp/foo && cp -v /tmp/{foo,bar/} returns an error after printing the verbose output.