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Adam Carter wrote: |
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> On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 7:49 PM Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk |
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> <mailto:neil@××××××××××.uk>> wrote: |
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> > So tell us what is your perfect country for hardware manufacturing? |
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> There isn't one as you can never be sure. You are presenting hope, and |
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> maybe likelihood, as certainty when this does not exist. |
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> Datapoint - looks like Bloomberg is starting to walk back its complete |
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> support of the original implant story. |
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> https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-11/super-micro-says-third-party-test-found-no-malicious-hardware |
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> Also they have assigned another reporter that was not involved in the |
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> original story, to attempt to verify the claims of the original story... |
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> Others have made the point that the Amazon and Apple denials left them |
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> no wriggle room in the event that implants are found and shareholders |
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> launch a class action, and that this indicates a genuine belief that |
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> there are no backdoors. |
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> Considering risk; |
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> If you are of interest to a nation state, you're pretty much stuffed |
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> anyway, and I think this discussion has been around implants made via |
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> Chinese government action. |
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> The management processor issue is a real problem because they're not |
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> well understood, on by default, cant be (or cant easily) be disabled, |
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> and has to be software maintained. However, given all the other issues |
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> like the never ending stream of security issues in software, i'm not |
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> sure it changes the overall risk profile significantly. Only time will |
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> tell. |
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> Sorry for further polluting your thread Dale :) |
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I agree. If you are committing international crimes, terrorism for |
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example, they will snoop on you and it doesn't matter much what you do |
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or use. If nothing else, they will put you on a super computer setup |
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that will crack whatever you are doing/using and get you that way. As |
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we know, generally speaking, given enough computer power, almost |
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anything can be cracked. It's a time thing mostly. |
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While off topic sort of, it is still relevant. This might fit better on |
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the encryption thread but I still find it interesting. It is technology |
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related too. It seems we agree on one thing here, we can't trust much |
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of anything or anyone completely. So, no need for the apology. I still |
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learn from the posts even if I don't post a reply to some. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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