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Re:Evidence points to another leaker at the NSA by snowwrestler on Monday August 22, 2016 @11:42PM (#12341236)
The GP post claims that every closed-source product is perpetually backdoored. If this were true, then there would be no way to detect backdoor access, and no way to deny it short of going 100% open source, which is simply not possible for large corporations.

What you describe is how intelligence services actually work to develop and protect real tools for access. What the GP claims is a fantasy in which such work is not necessary.

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Re:Evidence points to another leaker at the NSA by nickpsecurity on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @11:00AM (#12344236)
"The GP post claims that every closed-source product is perpetually backdoored. "

I agree that's a crap claim. Tried to provide alternative that showed situation is almost as bad as crap claims like that with 0-days. What overlap I did see was the emanation threat. That secrets leak out of any device and TEMPEST protection of them is illegal means that they are all backdoored for that in practice. Good news is it's a highly-specialist attack only a few countries know how to do that requires targeting and close proximity. Other good news is that smartcards and EM compatibility testing reinvented some defensive practices.

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