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I generally hold a similar opinion. However I have two data points that suggests back-doors are not available by default (for my government at least), but that
by mbakke 3y ago
I generally hold a similar opinion. However I have two data points that suggests back-doors are not available by default (for my government at least), but that they are aggressively bugging (or auditing, lol) devices:
* When I ordered the first generation Raspberry Pi, they were stuck in the toll a long time, and when they arrived all the warranty seals were broken. Consequently I never really used them.
* When I ordered the first generation Google Pixel, before it was generally available in my country, it was stuck in domestic mail for almost a week. The person who imported them sold and sent two phones the same day: the other one arrived after just two days and travelled a lot further. I used it regardless as I already considered phones a lost cause... (and could not with good conscience sell a possibly compromised device).
At this point I don't trust anything sent by mail.
- TheRealDunkirk 3y agoYou act like the NSA has been caught intercepting Cisco switches during shipping, and installing backdoored firmware, or something. Crazy conspiracy theorists...
- ilyt 3y agoI just assume I'm not interested enough to be spied upon by randoms > When I ordered the first generation Raspberry Pi, they were stuck in the toll a long time, and when they arrived all the warranty seals were broken. Consequently I never really used them. If state have means to bug raspberry pi it has means to re-seal the box...
- mbakke 3y ago> If state have means to bug raspberry pi it has means to re-seal the box... That's a good point that I never made sense of. The most likely explanation is simply an oversealouz toll agent. It just left a bad taste in my mouth so I didn't want to play with them... I had largely forgotten about it until the Google Pixel got stuck.
- backtoyoujim 3y agounless they wanted you to know and feel threatened by it
- phero_cnstrcts 3y ago> I just assume I'm not interested enough to be spied upon by randoms I believe the fewest are. But constant surveillance is an advantage if you need to monitor general opinions or if they find you interesting at a later point and want to check your history. So if you talk about burning wood in your stove a lot and it later becomes illegal you might have a hard time denying you have a stove if they ask you to pay extra carbon emission taxes. Or if you talk about chest pain a lot and later want to get a new health insurance you might find that your options are mysteriously more expensive than others.
- croes 3y agoAs we learned from Snowden, they spy ob everyone they just don't look in every data point but they still collect everything they can get.