In an interesting story covered by the Australian Financial Review it is revealed that experts think the NSA has hardware level backdoors built into Intel and AMD processors. Steve Blank, recognised as one of Silicon Valleys leading experts, says that he would be extremely surprised if the American NSA does not have backdoors built into Intel and AMD chips. His reason is that the NSA finds “hacking” through backdoors significantly more simple than trying to crack encryption. For example trying to crack AES 256 bit encryption would require the power of 10 million suns to crack at the current TDP of processors. Steve Blank therefore claims that because cracking encryption is so infeasible the NSA uses hardware level backdoors instead. Steve Blank said that these suspicions arose when he saw the NSA could access Microsoft emails in their pre-encryption state and so he knew there was another way in.
Everyone knows processors were botnet since a good couple of years ago, the only ones denying it are Sup Forumstards and "le nothing to hide xdxxdx" shitposters.
Easton Lee
My question is, if even encryption can't protect a system because of hardware backdoors, then does any kind of protection really matter?
Ayden Jones
I gave up a long time ago. My opsec is fucked and if the nsa or any major govt body wants into my shit there's no real way to stop them. Fuck it
Luke Torres
The thing is only the NSA has access to those and I can guarantee you that there are a lot of other people/groups that want to get in your computer who do not have access to hardware backdoors. The ones who cannot use the backdoors will attack through the OS instead.
Gabriel Torres
Well shit.
So this is how liberty dies? With thunderous processors.
Chase Scott
I get your point, of course.
These days though the lines between CIA, FBI, NSA, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, MAC They're all the same. You know they work together on some level. Shit, CISPA was all about companies sending customer's private information to the government freely. Google and Facebook do what the US Government can't do in broad daylight. Well, that's even only half true now because people have full knowledge of the broad range of government spying and a lot simply either do not care or don't even think about it at all.
Carson Rogers
freebsd wins again
Andrew Morris
we need open hardware and sophisticated 3d printers to print our own hardware
Nicholas Bell
It would only take 5 million suns on Ryzen.
Landon Davis
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Anthony Kelly
From that anecdote, it sounds like they have a backdoor on the encryption itself.
Getting access to the emails in their pre-encypted state through a CPU backdoor would imply access to an otherwise protected computer which has the emails in the outbox or whatever. But that anecdote is talking about emails themselves.
James Gomez
But there is nothing for me to hide xddddd
Julian Clark
>he would be extremely surprised if the American NSA does not have backdoors built into Intel and AMD chips
Well I'd like some more concrete information than "this random dude thinks they might have it" before I start panicking
Liam Nelson
>there is literally no way to stop the NSA from seeing everything you do on any computer with an internet connection What else is new
Cooper Clark
Own 4 computers so at any time your chance of being hacked is 25%
Camden Morales
Bullshit. You can go and use microscope on the cracked cpu and see by yourself. No undocumented shit you will find.
Daniel Hernandez
Logically speaking if the NSA have backdoors in nearly 99% of PCs how come they aren't catching more bad guys ?
Ian Hughes
Actually its 400%
Easton Gutierrez
Because muh terrorism threat is exaggerated so you vote away your rights and there aren't really that many active terrorists.
Christopher Howard
>heat of 5 million suns
so 1 r7 1700x?
wow maybe ryzen is strong after all
Gavin Smith
Yeah, kind of me too. I still do basic security procedures like passive protection with add-on's, use encryption everywhere applicable, securely erase my files and such, but I don't even bother trying to go full RMS anymore. There's just no way to escape the botnet.
The thing is, if they (NSA) wants you, they WILL find you. So the only trick left is to not make yourself wanted.
Jordan Peterson
why dont you realise that you dont secure yourself just from CIA, NSA american spy agencies
Alexander Rivera
It's a passive collection of information that is only drawn from the pool when it is needed. Active real-time processing of information is good these day's, but still not enough to go through all the traffic of the Internet every second or every minute of every day.
Basically it's just there when they need it.
Luis Nelson
(((Expert))) fuck off, tell me if you find something in Vault 7
John Sanchez
morons the goberment probably has quantum computers capitally of crack and os/hardware
my suggestion is to go analog for your personal data
ie do not scan important paperwork or giveout/input personal information to anyone
Owen Scott
>So, does anything really matter or what? nope.
you could always buy a pre-backdoor processor or buy chinese/russian.
Sebastian Allen
the only jew here is you trying to convince others that processor backdoors dont exist.
Juan Bailey
This meme is so five years ago.
Nolan Myers
>t. Neo-luddite shill I'm not giving up on technology yet
Christian Anderson
This shit started with Sandy Bridge and no one believed it
Colton Mitchell
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Brayden Allen
Question is, how long until other groups find these backdoors? Also, the NSA is using these chips themselves, so what will they do when other groups find the backdoors?
Easton Green
Core 2 Duos have no documented backdoors, buy an x200
