How do we make people more aware of this terrible danger? Some bitch started yelling at me because I didn't give enough of a shit about Covid-19 for her taste. That's her unique obsession right now. There's no talking about something else.
I tried to share my own preoccupations with her, things that matter much more than yet another lame Chinese flu pandemic. I tried to tell her that she cannot trust the compiler, even if she compiled it herself after auditing its source code. I shared some links, and advised her to read them carefully, but to no avail. She had hang up the phone before I had a chance to bring up the topic of Intel's out-of-the-band Management Engine.
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf
https://wiki.c2.com/?TheKenThompsonHack