• awiteb@lemmy.4rs.nlOP
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    I wouldn’t be surprised if I knew that the backdoors that appear in Windows were designed by someone. I didn’t know they were this brazen.

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          exploits regularly found in AMD and intel consumer chips

          didn’t apple chips get spotted with a vulnerability also? m2s?

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            That’s not a hard proof, people keep saying Intel ME and AMD PSP are potential backdoors ( key word: potential ) and this argument is good if we’re arguing about: which is the best ISA, an Open ISA ( RiscV ) or closed ISA ( x86 )

            I was asking for a general example, I know that Mediatek chips included a backdoor but I only found one article that talked about it … In french…

            Mobos : I think it’s MSI ( I could be wrong ) that installed a piece of software through a Bios update, which showed they have privileged remote access capabilities ( I couldn’t find that source, sorry )

            Another example would be ASUS and Gigabyte Mobos, now the initial source says it came from the second hand resellers, but no one confirmed that… which is scary… because that would mean it came straight from ASUS and/or Gigabyte

            I was asking for incidents that you came across that could demonstrate the presence of firmware backdoors, saying having too many bugs is not a good argument, because all software has bugs.

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      I didn’t know they were this brazen.

      Oh boy i remember when i was this innocent

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        I’m not innocent, but this is unbelievable, that they would ask the main developer to plant a virus in it!! This is really rude

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          He is lucky he is no a US national… that convo could have gone down differently. People telling US spooks no, don’t live long.

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            tbf the article only assumes he told them no because of how implausible it seems the task would be, the actual details of what if anything was discussed and what happened are unknown.

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          of all the things the nsa has done this is probably the nicest