On Mon, 28 Jan 2019, Alexandre Belgrand wrote: > Le lundi 28 janvier 2019 à 13:08 -0800, goldsm...@riseup.net a écrit : > > I'm intrigued how you know can catagorically state "CAs and GNU/Linux > > distributions are #1 targets for national > > China: > https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies > > China uses a tiny chip to intercept data. Read Bloomberg article. > > "A chip can also steal encryption keys for secure communications, block > security updates that would neutralize the attack, and open up new > pathways to the internet."
There are many technical reasons raising from plain physics/electronics which make an attack chip of that size with the described capabilities to seem quite utopistic (and the article therefore bogus). ...But of course you can choose to believe what you want. -- i. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/alpine.DEB.2.20.1901290037280.13141%40whs-18.cs.helsinki.fi. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
