Every time I read things like these, I am so tempted to buy a yeeloong
notebook..
How is the status on the MIPS architecture?
-Miguel
On 09/28/2013 06:25 AM, [email protected] wrote:
Answering my own question...
http://www.eteknix.com/expert-says-nsa-have-backdoors-built-into-intel-and-amd-processors/
All the articles seem to reference the same Australian Financial
Review story from July of this year.
http://www.afr.com/p/technology/intel_chips_could_be_nsa_key_to_ymrhS1HS1633gCWKt5tFtI
And a denial from AMD here.
http://fudzilla.com/home/item/32120-amd-denies-existence-of-nsa-backdoor
One is tempted to think "well, they would say that, wouldn't they"? No
one's going to admit to this and see Government and/or military supply
contracts lost.
I've spent the last 10+ years loving IT, spending every spare moment
in front of my pc. Most of them using Linux. I was happy, believing
that if "we" could just get enough people interested in Open Source
that the world could be made a better and safer place, free from the
tyranny of Corporate nonsense and spying.
Over the last few days, as a result of the various links on this and
other threads here, everything has changed. Now it all seems nasty and
suspicious. I used to think "I cannot help someone to be happy with
Windows or Apple, without at least warning them of the loss of privacy
and control they bring with them" but now I'm wondering if the message
should be "if you have a computer, regardless of what you run on it,
you're unable to rely on being secure or safe".
What if NSA employees are masquerading as OpenSource contributors?
What if they are "maintainers" for various bits of code? If code comes
from "a trusted person" is it really reviewed by others for compromise
or is it accepted as "trusted" and included without being checked?
We had a story break here in the UK a few months ago, whereby it
transpired that undercover Police had infiltrated various political
movements, to the extent of having sexual relationships and even
children with women in the movements. If that is the level of abuse of
trust that is being carried out in order to monitor dissidents, then
it's highly likely that some trusted contributors are indeed working
for the security agencies, with hidden agendas.
Once stories like that become known it naturally and presumably
intentionally, introduces mistrust into every such movement, as people
begin to look at people they thought were trusted and wonder "are you
a Policeman too"? Such mistrust tears movements apart, again,
presumably quite deliberately.
Divide and rule.
So it comes down to this, for me - I'm not involved in anything that
could be described as genuine terrorism. I don't call for the deaths
of politicians or bankers. I speak out as and when it seems necessary,
always and only in defence of the weak and the poor. If the day should
come when they're arresting people for doing that then that's no world
I wish to live in and I'll take the consequences without shame.
Or put another way "f*ck 'em, I'm doing no wrong" and I'm not going to
let a bit of fear (perhaps unfounded and introduced by those who wish
to destroy the OSS movement) stop me from thus speaking out.
