Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA backdoor

Post by MSFT_Edging » Wed, Sep 20, 2023, 2:12 PM UTC

slackfan wrote: post #388

MSFT_Edging wrote: post #309

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Gulag is just Russian for prison. The US currently has about 1.2M people in their gulags, comrade*

Гулаг (gulag) is the acronym for "Гла́вное управле́ние исправи́тельно-трудовы́х лагере́й" which translates to "Head management office of correctional work camps". And if you're going to go for all incarcerated, the number is actually somewhere in the 2.1mil range in the US, because hey, jails are a thing. Sorry that you're wrong on all three points.

Post by mardifoufs » Wed, Sep 20, 2023, 2:19 PM UTC

phatfish wrote: post #558

miguelazo wrote: post #346

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Russia may not care (doubtful), but the airline will not even let you board . Not trashing your host is probably wise, but given his experience with the US government, he probably no longer subscribes to the naive worldview that Putin (or Xi) are uniquely bad, just bad in their own ways and responding to the world with their nation's interests (and their legacies) in mind.

This is a fun narrative that the US is just the same as the Russian or Chinese governments, i wonder who could benefit from pushing that... The fact Snowden is still alive pushing anti-US propaganda shows the difference, if the roles were reversed he would have been assassinated long ago.

Post by kube-system » Wed, Sep 20, 2023, 2:56 PM UTC

lmm wrote: post #533

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"compromised" might be a word used by the tech community to refer specifically to technical compromises, but the word means something much more broad outside of tech forums. > then anything substantially made in the US, Australia, South Korea, Israel or Kazakhstan (non-exhaustive list) should be considered compromised. Not really, because many of those countries you listed have mutual treaties of cooperation and are…

> Not really, because many of those countries you listed have mutual treaties of cooperation and are not hostile to each other. Doesn't seem to stop them from taking immensely hostile actions, e.g. the US spying on Merkel's emails, or helping killers and rapists who work for them evade arrest in "allied" countries. Governments are large and complex and have many competing interests. Why would/should one trust any of…

Post by obogobo » Wed, Sep 20, 2023, 3:28 PM UTC

whalesalad wrote: post #22

my edgerouter ER4 has a cavium processor =(

Post by no-reply » Wed, Sep 20, 2023, 3:43 PM UTC

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The old men persuade the would-be suicide bomber that educating women will liberate and liberalize them, and that this is counter to the interests of those who prefer the traditional order of society. Are they even lying?

Yes, they're lying. The 'traditional order of society' is a society run by psycho pathological individuals and benefits nobody except for those individuals. But you already knew that, didn't you?