Jan Jaap <[email protected]> wrote:
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> In the light of recent discoveries and worries about Government hardware 
> backdoors that are being forced into hardware by law in some countries 
> (Wikileaks Vault 7, Intel ME / AMD PSP God backdoor etc.), I was wondering 
> what risks there are that the hardware of a BeagleBone is tampered with by 
> a distributor / Government, or that it contains (hardware) backdoors.
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> Is it possible to know with 100% certainty that a purchased BeagleBoard is 
> free of hardware backdoors / tampering?
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If it's not connected to the internet the backdoor won't open anywhere
will it!  Also, usually, one has control over whatever device (router
or whatever) there is between the BBB and the internet if it *is*
connected so you can monitor what is going back and forth.

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Chris Green
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