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The hardest kind of attack to protect against is a security hole that is deliberately introduced by an employee who is actually a mole for a state actor. Frank
by lisper 5y ago
The hardest kind of attack to protect against is a security hole that is deliberately introduced by an employee who is actually a mole for a state actor. Frankly, I'm a little surprised that an attack like this has not yet been discovered because it would not be that hard to do (relative to the capabilities of state actors).
(This concern also applies to secure comms apps, BTW.)
- Mikeb85 5y agoThe hole is that state actors can simply compel corporations to give up the data. There are now trillion dollar corporations but the US government could shut them down tomorrow if they truly wanted.
- pjc50 5y agoDifferent states exist. That is, supply chain security involves a lot of possible state actors trying to subvert other state and private actors for a variety of reasons, from ransomware to intelligence to simple opportunism for chaos.