02-19-2015, 02:57 AM
(02-17-2015, 10:04 PM)SteelCrysis Wrote: And now, any news post about this will contain unsubstantiated accusations that the NSA is behind this.
Just fucking look at this. Nowhere does Kapersky even mention the NSA, but TPU is putting words into their mouth: http://www.techpowerup.com/209925/nsa-hi...mware.html
This is why nothing is fully secure. Call it whatever you may, NSA or whatever. There are holes by design and hackers eventually find them. From OSes, CPUs, to HW.
Do you remember the major USB security risk. It allowed the total demise of Iran's nuclear project just by someone pluggin in a single USB device and it took down their entire system. It was no accident, by design. This is the chineese governemt is behind the push to make their own x86 CPU,
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/410...-to-intel/
There are holes by design and eventually hackers find them. I cant say all of them are because that just isnt true. But you ever wonder why there seems to be reluctance to patch sometimes? Or shall i say, it sometimes takes a very long time to address some really major vulnerabilities. Like there is no hurry.
There are vulnerabilities built in by design but it goes way back to the earliest days of computing.