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The real threat is not tampering, the real threat is from the manufacturer and the corporations that already have keys to the data kingdom and control the entir
by devoply 7y ago
The real threat is not tampering, the real threat is from the manufacturer and the corporations that already have keys to the data kingdom and control the entire stack. I have yet to hear of a single case of hardware tampering as software tampering is much much easier and infinitely more effective... and even if hardware tampering happens it's an extreme edge case and almost irrelevant.
- solotronics 7y agoThis kind of blurs the line between hardware and software but there have been recent attacks where groups have written attack firmwares to motherboards and hard drives of cloud computing baremetal servers.
- stcredzero 7y agoIt's still software. It's just software that most application programmers ignore by inclination.
- stcredzero 7y agoAre there known cases of hardware tampering exploits, and how many of them are done by state actors as opposed to private ones? Also, how many of the known cases are indeterminate in that way? (state vs private) Restricting the public access to hardware will encourage more state hardware tampering.
- carapace 7y agoAre you asking if things have gotten more subtle since 1945? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)