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• 1984@lemmy.today ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I know but I think the general public doesn’t know or understand this. It’s still not exactly admitted as a general thing how this works. Apple and other companies usually talk about how they are resisting to give out access etc.

  But yeah, nsa can probably access all windows and Mac systems. I don’t think Linux though. Not counting Intel Management Engine in the cpu.

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  • Inktvip@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Linux is where a lot of the actually interesting stuff is, so I highly doubt they don’t have a bag of exploits for that.

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    • explodicle@local106.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You’re not wrong, but exploits get caught and patched more quickly than backdoors.

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• SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A lot of that info was known over a year before that even. Wired did a cover story that apparently got no attention from anyone but me… www.wired.com/2012/03/ff-nsadatacenter/

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  • PickTheStick@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I remember another story as well, where the journalist actually walked up the hill that blocked the view of the facility and saw the construction. It had about the same focus, but didn’t go into as much detail on the computing side of the NSA, just their storage capabilities.

    The knowledge that a government agency is recording everything is one of those existential horrors that slowly fades and just quietly lurks in your mind, hidden beneath the daily struggles and interests.

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  • SrElsewhere@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It predates your story by at least five years, 2007, when an engineer in SFO revealed that a backbone line had been spliced and all traffic was passing to government machines.

    And that revelation also inspired a public backlash of ‘meh.’

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• explodicle@local106.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For those wondering, that’s 0.097 dic pics per male per day.

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