At risk of distracting users from very important issues, is it possible that my post here (Are the Intel NSA backdoors fully disabled on all devices? - #23 by Dlonk) is better served by being moved to this thread?
That being said, after some reflection, I regret my conclusion that sounded as if we should all give up on computer security in that post. Ultimately, I do not believe we should give up. A better way for me to say it is that I believe I will most likely fail, but that it is nevertheless worth trying whenever we have available information that might help us to secure ourselves as best as possible.