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“We cannot trust” Intel and Via’s chip-based crypto, FreeBSD developers say



 
 
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Old December 22nd 13, 11:39 AM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Mr. Man-wai Chang
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Default “We cannot trust” Intel and Via’s chip-based crypto, FreeBSD developers say

On 14/12/2013 3:37 PM, geoff wrote:
... the NSA and its British counterpart defeat encryption technologies by
working with chipmakers to insert backdoors, or cryptographic
weaknesses, in their products.


Will chip makers be allowed to produce devices and operating systems
that could never be hacked by the US government? I don't think so....

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Old December 22nd 13, 03:24 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Skybuck Flying[_7_]
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Default “We cannot trust” Intel and Via’s chip-based crypto, FreeBSD developers say

Cracking/reverse engineerings Intel's and AMD's microcode would be a start.

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Old December 25th 13, 02:07 AM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Default We cannot trust Intel and Vias chip-based crypto, FreeBSD developers say

On Sunday, December 15, 2013 4:59:14 AM UTC+8, John Doe wrote:
Posting from Windows Live. Who could have guessed...


Off topic by the anonymous coward Jon Dough... who could have guessed...

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Old December 25th 13, 02:12 AM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Default We cannot trust Intel and Vias chip-based crypto, FreeBSD developers say

On Sunday, December 22, 2013 6:39:36 PM UTC+8, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

Will chip makers be allowed to produce devices and operating systems

that could never be hacked by the US government? I don't think so....


Hey the Chinese hackers are pretty good too I've heard... in fact, the latest novel by the late Tom Clancy, "Threat Vector", was precisely on this theme. In the book, those evil Chinese, going to Silicon Valley to reach out and touch a computer programmer with a kinetic solution [an assassination] was a bit hokey but fun...that a team of crack China commandos were then defeated by a fat, middle-aged American who faked a heart attack and then single handedly defeated them in hand-to-hand combat in a US office complex was a bit of a stretch to the imagination, given that Clancy is supposed to give realistic descriptions, but that's Clancy catering to Hollywood's tastes.

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Old December 25th 13, 02:21 AM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Default We cannot trust Intel and Vias chip-based crypto, FreeBSD developers say

On Sunday, December 22, 2013 10:24:30 PM UTC+8, Skybuck Flying wrote:
Cracking/reverse engineerings Intel's and AMD's microcode would be a start.

 




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