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Hardware Vendor Offers Backdoor with Every Product
- drcube 15y agoWhy don't companies simply offer hardware "back doors"? My company has jumpers to temporarily disable password protection and/or reset to the default password on the main board in every device they make. This keeps you from being locked out of your equipment as long as you have physical access to it. And everybody knows (or should know) that physical security is the first and most important level of information security there is. The answer, of course, is that if they did it that way, they couldn't offer access to your equipment to the government and various corporate spies without your knowledge. :( I learned a little bit about cyber warfare in the Army, but I never thought it would be a daily occurrence in my life as a civilian.