Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA backdoor

Post by c7DJTLrn » Tue, Sep 19, 2023, 5:48 PM UTC

some_random wrote: post #75

perihelions wrote: post #2

How 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?

Snowden leaked a shit ton of documents, the vast majority of which had absolutely nothing to do with any kind of NSA wrongdoing. Journalists then had to go through and try to figure out what these documents actually meant (which they frequently misunderstood). Obviously they're still doing it to today.

Post by ormax3 » Tue, Sep 19, 2023, 5:49 PM UTC

michaelt wrote: post #13

perihelions wrote: post #2

How 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 suspect when a trove of documents is big enough, newspaper readers lose interest before you run out of documents. I mean, even on this tech forum hardly anyone knows who Cavium are, let alone your average Washington Post reader.

Post by dr-detroit » Tue, Sep 19, 2023, 5:51 PM UTC

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Then your risk identifying yourself in the Ashley Madison leak. You run the risk of not getting your message out in the Snowden case. The biggest threat is future publishing which is why so many countries broke laws made up charges going after Wikileaks. A wikileak revival scares the most powerful

It would also be allot of fun

Post by oaththrowaway » Tue, Sep 19, 2023, 5:52 PM UTC

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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 ki…

Snowden's past actions were never heroic, that is just spin manufactured by journalists with a vested interest in constructing a narrative. He's been arrogantly self-serving from the start, and it's rather disappointing that some people still haven't grown out of their juvenile phase of blind hero worship.

Post by TavsiE9s » Tue, Sep 19, 2023, 5:54 PM UTC

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We've had other issues with our CloudHSM instance, especially with the PKCS1.5 deprecation on January 1. And their support has been pretty dismal. Not expecting much from them at this point.

AWS support is pretty fucking terrible generally. We’re a very high rolling enterprise customer and it’s pretty obvious that some of their shit is being managed by two guys in a shed somewhere who don’t talk to each other.