[PLUG] How do we know who to trust?

[Dick Steffens]

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.

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Regards,

Dick Steffens