"The idea of the NSA putting hardware in every computer sounds absurd, until you realize it actually happened."
interesting read
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artifus is doing it all wrong, Mon 11 Dec 2017, 21:34,
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This POS is giving me the mother of all security headaches right now
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Mon 11 Dec 2017, 22:09,
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tpm
I've thought everybody knows that
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omnitruncatedkraken from Empire Algol, Mon 11 Dec 2017, 22:31,
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Never sounded absurd to me.
Nice to know I'm not paranoid.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Mon 11 Dec 2017, 22:34,
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"We are monitoring a million squillion pc's, how do we focus on the important ones?"
"Let's see who downloads a 'tool' to try and block us. Or buys a computer without our super secret monitoring stuff. They're the ones we want to look at."
If you really feel the need to hide, do it in a noisy crowd.
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Tue 12 Dec 2017, 9:36,
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It's pure tinfoil hat bullshit which anyone who's done packet monitoring on networks can tell you.
Also, wouldn't the NSA be fucking panicking over all of the other manufactures, EG: AMD (10.4% of the PC market), Qualcomm (Snapdragon which is in most of your phones and tablets), Huawei (in a good chunk of the chinese phones and tablets).
Doesn't seem like a convincing strategy, even if were true.
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DinivanX Has stinging piss after drinking Pact Coffee, Tue 12 Dec 2017, 12:17,
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What, like TrustZone?
Obviously the NSA has little control of chips fabbed outside the US, but who knows what undisclosed backdoors are present in Chinese fabbed silicon (it's not like similar things haven't been discovered at a higher hardware level)?
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Tue 12 Dec 2017, 18:31,
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