Comment on How do we know the government doesn't just have a secret hardware backdoor in all our devices?
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 5 weeks agoI doubt that's the case. We already had a good amount of government-sponsored hacking, worms like Stuxnet. The Israelis can make every pager explode. It has been debated if there's surveillance in some networking equipment. I think it'd be quite affordable to put a few more lines of code into Intel ME and AMD's equivalent. The hardware is already there.
joe_archer@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
If you honestly think that the exploding pagers where just standard pagers, and somehow made to explode by hacking them, your grasp of physics and technology could do with some improvement.
The pagers where packed with a small amount of explosive and remote detonation system and then fed into the Hamas group through a supply chain attack.
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 5 weeks ago
Sure, that basic physics knowledge was kind of implied in my comment. Most of these things are supply chain attacks. Could be targeted at someone and happen after manufacuring. Or you'd make the regular manufacturer include a backdoor. Or you'd do it like with the pagers and set up a whole fake manufacturer and sell them with explosives inside.