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Old 10-10-2018, 07:12 PM   #16
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If you think your hardware has been tampered with and backdoored, then you throw it away. There is no "other than".

Well, unless you think you have enough evidence to turn it in to your own country's authorities, I mean. Then you do that.

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should I say UK is doing it? but they are not.
And how would you know that?

FWIW, I've read one book (it was either Kim Zetter's book on Stuxnet or David Sanger's book that had a chapter on Stuxnet) that mentions the CIA doing stuff like this.

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Old 10-15-2018, 06:00 PM   #17
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If you think your hardware has been tampered with and backdoored, then you throw it away. There is no "other than".
thank you. that's one legit answer which i already mentioned.

throw away i think it's the only practical way: the CIA or who doesn't have what it takes to re-release "security reviewed" drivers for foreign hardware. MFG can't even release drivers for their own units without continual fixes - let alone handle re-release of countless imports.

why doesn't the packaging on the PC warn it is only good for trash and controlled by a foreign country? is that "legal"?
 
  


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