Snowden also said Russia wasn't going to invade Ukraine in 2022.
Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA backdoor
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#262Earlier quoted context omitted.
Certainly Google (and Oracle and AWS): https://www.marvell.com/company/newsroom/marvell-enables-ent...
I'm not saying you are wrong but I can make a website which claims some cloud provider uses my hardware too. Their website is irrelevant. Do we have a Google (or AWS/...) page regarding this?
> Note: Currently, all Cloud HSM devices are manufactured by Marvell (formerly Cavium). "Cavium" and "HSM manufacturer" are currently interchangeable in this topic.
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#263When I buy something electronic, my approach is "everything that is closed and goes online will be used to spy on people". It may seem a stretch, but governments can't exercise power over something they cannot control, and truly private communications would take away some of that control. To me there are no conspiracy theories or other strange reasons for being able to decrypt any seemingly private information except…
I generally hold a similar opinion. However I have two data points that suggests back-doors are not available by default (for my government at least), but that they are aggressively bugging (or auditing, lol) devices: * When I ordered the first generation Raspberry Pi, they were stuck in the toll a long time, and when they arrived all the warranty seals were broken. Consequently I never really used them. * When I ord…
You act like the NSA has been caught intercepting Cisco switches during shipping, and installing backdoored firmware, or something. Crazy conspiracy theorists...
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#264Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is the right approach IMO. Just assume you’re being persistently surveilled - if you use a computer or electronics then the likelihood approaches 100% over your lifetime.
If you have to take this approach they have already won
You are correct, “they” have won so far unfortunately
Doesn’t mean we don’t do anything about it, just means we have to acknowledge reality
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#265Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sure. See you in the gulag, comerade
Oh please, the United States is so incredibly armed, my death will likely come at the hands of some misplaced right-wing militarized fascist group performing mass murders under the guise of "Freedom" and "A return to the constitutional purity of the US".
I mean, that more or less describes most police departments in the country. And they are spying on you.
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#266Genuinely, at this point you should just assume 100% of your electronics are compromised by someone. If it’s not a government (yours or otherwise) then a corporation will fill the gaps (while in most cases also giving it to those governments) You should assume you have no privacy anywhere in your life.
I have a laptop with no communications functioning and I'm sure it is not compromised. The proof of it is openly stored the wallet.dat file with no any password.
Is the idea to challenge someone to prove you wrong?
Or are you suggesting that there no way for one of the aforementioned groups to recover your data remotely should they have a focused desire to recover it?
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#267Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's quite a bit more subtle than that. News organization have their sources that are in the intelligence community. They use each other. Sometimes the journalist wants to use their sources for information. Other times their sources feed them disinformation disguised as information. Other times they want a back channel to leak some real information but can't be seem as coming from a government source. Being a good jo…
I have no sources at hand, but I understood the FBI/CIA is embedded within every major news org in the US.
Wait until you realize their footprints on Wallstreet, many of which openly admit their former employment.. Once a company man always a company man.. or something.
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#268“You can't defend. You can't protect. The only thing you can do is detect and respond.” -- Bruce Schneier
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#269How the NSA successfully manage to prevent the Washington Post and friends from discovering and reporting on this malicious backdoor? They've been sitting on these documents for a decade. Are the journalists just that *uncurious* about the deep contents of the documents they hold exclusive access to? Was this some kind of organizational failing?
I don't think the journos were lazy, and I don't think there was an organisational failing. The Guardian, in particular, evidently fell out with Snowden and his collaborators; they turned on him. I assume that was coordinated with Washpo and Spiegel. That is: I think there was a decision made, to stop publishing information from the Snowden trove.
I don't know what the reason for the betrayal was. I'm pretty sure Alan Rusbridger knows though. He resigned as Editor-in-chief shortly after these events.
I don't get why whistleblowers rely on newspaper publishers to unpack their leaks for the public; it's not as if the press are known for either their honesty or their scruples.
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#270Very impressive work by the NSA, if true. Both from a political and technical perspective. It's good to know that our intelligence services are doing what they're supposed to, and doing it well. However, as interesting as this revelation is, it's unfortunate that Snowden decided to defect to the Russians and share his stolen cache of top secret documents with them and China, using Western journalists as ideological c…
This is the thing that rubs me the wrong way about Snowden - had he stayed and faced the music as a true whistleblower, he would've earned my respect for sticking to principles and acting as a loyal citizen acting in the interest of the country, even in the face of persecution. He did not do that. Instead, he's living a comfortable life in the bowels of a country that is committing vicious, daily war crimes. I don't…
I think this is incredibly rich. Snowden is undoubtedly on the US' "really, really naughty" list -- would you, personally, sit back and be imprisoned for the rest of your life (and possibly be tortured), or live comparatively freely elsewhere?
> I don't hear him make a peep about kidnapped Ukrainian children, or the civilians that Russia tortures and kills.
Can you really not see why that would be a bad idea? He's kind of tied up here, if he doesn't want to end up dead by somebody's hands.
> opportunistically committed a massive act of espionage a long time ago
How exactly do his past actions go from heroic to a "massive opportunistic act of espionage" because of his actions in the present?