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There is a ton of evidence that equipment out of China can come with built-in backdoors and worse.
by voakbasda 3mo ago
There is a ton of evidence that equipment out of China can come with built-in backdoors and worse.
- cyanydeez 3mo agoat best, theres evidence of the same guilty poorly built software and hardware because capitalism is king king, youre angry at capitalism not some super uber foreign suveillance program. its like being angry that someone entered your house cause you bought a cheap door and its lock broke.
- lazide 3mo agoI have it on good authority that the Soviets also made crap.
- cyanydeez 3mo agoyes, but we're talking about how the Chinese produce crap that's built cheaply, sold cheaply, ends up in American's hands and it's buggy and insecure; and instead of thinking, gee, perhaps capitalism isn't building the best products for my security they think "oh gee, the chinese have a whole apparatus of surveillance looking to get into my <insert todays problem>. Then someone exploits sed insecurity and the circle of paranoia is complete. It's basically the digital version of chinese weather balloons. Lets just spend 250k shooting it down cause there's a 1% chance it's voodoo magic.
- voakbasda 3mo agoYou realize that a lot of these devices have been found to phone home to servers in the motherland, right? Without informing the user they were doing so? Or would be expected for the class and function of device? You wanna explain how that was just “buggy and insecure”?
- giov4 3mo agoA device calling home and posting data is normality since many years already and does not directly represent a security risk for the normal user, based also on the fact that this communication is often covered by his vendor policy acceptance. what's bad is if the vendor is sending data that should not be sent or collected and if the vendor leaves the device insecure, especially on purpose. In relation to the inverter case yes that can represent potential risk since it would be part of the grid too, hence near to crit infra and maybe even able to influence it. Additionally network can be controlled, limited and inspected, that's a bit different for a hidden backdoor or hardcoded creds in a flashed firmware on a chip.
- lazide 2mo agopretty much anything could be hidden in a firmware update over SSL, yeah?
- lazide 3mo agoI’m pointing out this has literally nothing to do with Capitalism. If anything, this move is ANTI capitalist.