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Re: WYTM - "but what if it was true?"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Allen Earnest)
Wed Jun 22 15:55:47 2005
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Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 13:46:21 -0400
From: Mark Allen Earnest <mxe20@psu.edu>
Reply-To: mxe20@psu.edu
To: Ian Grigg <iang@systemics.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <200506221354.36991.iang@systemics.com>
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Ian Grigg wrote:
> A highly aspirated but otherwise normal watcher of black helicopters asked:
>
>
>>Any idea if this is true?
>> (WockerWocker, Wed Jun 22 12:07:31 2005)
>>http://c0x2.de/lol/lol.html
>
>
> Beats me. But what it if it was true. What's your advice to
> clients?
First up, it certainly is not true, the images are just ripped from here:
http://www.dansdata.com/keyghost.htm
To the question at hand, unless you built the hardware (or are an
electrical engineer and inspected it all), you cannot fully trust it. No
different than trusting that a compiler is not putting malicious code
into programs it compiled unless you inspect the disassembled binary
(with a disassembler you wrote, using a compiler you wrote, on hardware
you built, etc.)
I would however assume that if something like this were happening, it
would not be on a "stick out like a sore thumb" board stuck inside a PC,
it would be embedded inside a chip that is supposed to be there.
--
Mark Allen Earnest
Lead Systems Programmer
Emerging Technologies
The Pennsylvania State University
Lt Commander
Centre County Sheriff's Office Search and Rescue
KB3LYB
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