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Or, those scenarios just don't make the news as frequent as script kiddie stuff. We only learned about what NSA has been up to because Snowden happened.
by sedatk 6y ago
Or, those scenarios just don't make the news as frequent as script kiddie stuff. We only learned about what NSA has been up to because Snowden happened.
- bubblethink 6y agoThis is the opposite lesson to take away from Snowden's revelations. You want more user control, not less.
- sedatk 6y agoI agree. I’m just saying that news may not be the best indicator of how common an attack vector is.
- young_unixer 6y agoIf I want to protect against the NSA I'm worried about them using Intel ME, AMD PSP and other black boxes to hack me. I don't worry that much about them sneaking into my data center or house and physically changing my hardware. The security you lose from having a black box in your CPU is much greater than the security you win by virtue of being (theoretically) protected against unsigned bootloaders and rogue hardware.
- sedatk 6y agoI merely provided NSA as an example of how advanced attack vectors might go unnoticed for decades.
- temptemptemp111 6y agoNo, everyone with half a brain knew, but was called a conspiracy theorist for years. Then Snowden was a controlled release with virtually the same information, and it was approved by the mainstream media. Plus his stamp of approval was on Signal "for whistleblowers" :P