[PLUG-TALK] [PLUG] How do we know who to trust?

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I'd imagine the same situation could/would arise here with the use of
simple gag order against one or few individuals.

Whichever way I look at this, it does not single out any particular
superpower as better or worse compared to the others. All of them
could/already do this and there is no legal protection to anyone.

Remember the reporting on re-routing servers and network gears thorough
warehouses in places, splicing submarine cables by just about anyone.

Power in wrong hands with no transparency is the root cause.


On Thu, 2018-10-04 at 15:59 -0700, Eitan Tsur wrote:
> My theory, even if Amazon knows about such an attempt, calling out
> China
> may jeopardize an entire market for them financially.
> 
> On Thu, Oct 4, 2018, 13:30 Dick Steffens <dick at dicksteffens.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > On 10/04/2018 12:51 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> > > On Thu, 4 Oct 2018, Dick Steffens wrote:
> > > 
> > > > The story about Elemental's computers having a spy chip on
> > > > their
> > > > motherboards raise the question, how can we know if our
> > > > computers are
> > > > compromised?
> > > 
> > > Dick,
> > > 
> > >   We probably cannot. But, motherboards by Asus, MSI, and similar
> > > companies
> > > destined for the consumer market are most likely unaffected.
> > 
> > We're probably too large a collection of small targets.
> > 
> > >   That Amazon so strongly denies that it actually found the chips
> > > makes me
> > > more concerned than does the broader implications.
> > 
> > Kind of fits in with the current round of denials coming out of
> > D.C.
> > 
> > --
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Dick Steffens
> > 
> > 
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