On 07/26/2012 02:44 PM, Kent Borg wrote:
My "Manchurian" musings are on the theory that the Chinese are aggressively trying to break into western systems, and that a Chinese company (not just Chinese manufacturer) would have extra opportunity to embed lots of stuff in products they ship. Not just software, but in firmware and silicon. Maybe keyboard recorders that can be read back given physical control of the computer. Maybe network hardware features that can offer more deluxe remote access. Running Linux would break (most) Windows assumptions that remote access might depend upon, but clever attackers might be more OS agnostic. Lenovo seems like the make that would most likely have backdoors. If the US government makes US manufacturers put in backdoors (as has been rumored) the Chinese are certainly not above similar behavior. -kb
I think it is unlikely the foreign governments will be modifying the hardware. Most the spying, etc seems to be limited to the software level. (so far.) _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
