[Trisquel-users] Re : Can mainboard hardware back doors be found and defeated?

[lcerf]

"Dumb terminal" do not do their own processing. They just forward the inputs  
to a "main computer" to which they are attached and wait for the response to  
display. How would that be defeating spying? The attacker has a easier task:  
she now only needs to spy on the main computers.

It would be like saying that using phones defeats spying because, contrary to  
walkie-talkies, all communications are routed to central computers.