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Why not both? If you have reason to believe that some state-equivalent espionage group implants malware in machines headed in your direction, it is to your a
by dsr_ 6y ago
Why not both?
If you have reason to believe that some state-equivalent espionage group implants malware in machines headed in your direction, it is to your advantage to defend against that.
It seems to be the case that human-rights advocates as well as dictatorships have been such targets.
- varispeed 6y agoIt's not so much about spying on western infrastructure, but about using such technology for genocide, racial profiling (for example restricting certain ethnic groups movements) and the whole police state infrastructure to keep population "under control".
- toast0 6y agoHow does an open standard remote management card enable genocide or whatever? Non-open standard management chips are cheap and off the shelf and work ok; or you know, just have a tech in the datacenter with a kvm cart; it's not as nice, but not really a big deal. I also don't see a huge difference in genoicde capability between 2010 servers and 2020 servers, but 2010 servers are eWaste. Restricting genocidal organizations to ten year old technology would raise their power bills, but not diminish genocidal capabilities; and restricting much more would require immense effort on a global scale. (And, of course, you would need to get near-global consensus about the country, which is quite difficult)