https://calebc42.com/tags/philosophy/Recent content in Philosophy on Caleb ChristensenHugoen-usWed, 06 May 2026 17:57:26 -0600https://calebc42.com/posts/digital-sovereignty/Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://calebc42.com/posts/digital-sovereignty/<h2 id="the-reality-of-modern-hardware-ownership">The Reality of Modern Hardware Ownership</h2> <p>You own a laptop. It&rsquo;s five years old but functional—the hardware works, the screen is intact, the battery holds charge. Then the manufacturer stops releasing security updates.</p> <p>What happens next isn&rsquo;t a simple risk of data theft. An unsupported operating system becomes an exploitable entry point for the entire system. Known vulnerabilities in the OS kernel allow an attacker to gain root access. From there, they can exploit low-level system interfaces to write malicious code directly into the firmware—the UEFI or BIOS that loads before your operating system even starts.</p>