> On Apr 5, 2024, at 10:16 PM, Charlie <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> My bet is on a hacker group in China that does business with the military or
> state security services. Because there is no longer anything communist about
> the Communist Party of China. –Charlie
We don't have to cross the Pacific, Charlie, the assault on secure computing is
made in the USA. For years, Cisco Systems promoted serious doubts about the
integrity and security of Huawei networking equipment and the risks of Chinese
spying. The spread of fear, uncertainty, and dread was working, i.e. companies
continued to pay more for a product that made them feel safer, but then the
Snowden papers revealed that the NSA was intercepting Cisco's routers on
loading docks and swapping out the computer boards for ones the NSA controlled.
None of this is related to open-source software. But our intelligence agencies
are active in open-source software and also in cryptographic standards.
https://www.wired.com/2014/04/obama-zero-day/ notes the law guiding US
intelligence agencies regarding open source software allows states that 'any
flaws that have "a clear national security or law enforcement" use can be kept
secret and exploited.'
Mark
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