64-bit Orange Pi – A Quad Core Computer for $20

Re:64-bit Orange Pi – A Quad Core Computer for $20 by singularity2001 on Monday November 07, 2016 @06:19AM (#12890249)

Anyone worried about the device coming from China? What's even the name of the Chinese NSA analogous backdoor specialist? "Party"?

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Re:64-bit Orange Pi – A Quad Core Computer for $20 by todd8 on Monday November 07, 2016 @06:57AM (#12890394)

Although no state actor would leave in a kernel backdoor that is opened with "rootmydevice" as the magic word.

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Re:64-bit Orange Pi – A Quad Core Computer for $20 by cabalamat on Monday November 07, 2016 @07:43AM (#12890584)

Indeed. I expect the backdoor is in the chip anyway, not the kernel.

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Re:64-bit Orange Pi – A Quad Core Computer for $20 by edblarney on Monday November 07, 2016 @06:34AM (#12890315)

Even though your comment may seem facetious / funny ... and even though I'm not remotely a conspiracy theorist ...

There is some truth to wha you are saying.

Certain governments are pretty aggressive these days with these things and have an established track record of doing such things.

That said, since it's fully 'open' perhaps it would be more difficult to insert malware than say in a Huwaeii or Cisco router :)

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Re:64-bit Orange Pi – A Quad Core Computer for $20 by pulse7 on Monday November 07, 2016 @08:11AM (#12890729)

> I'm not remotely a conspiracy theorist ... These things are becoming reality... so you are a "realist" now, and not a theorist...

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Re:64-bit Orange Pi – A Quad Core Computer for $20 by genkaos on Monday November 07, 2016 @06:41AM (#12890337)

Yeah, having Intel ME is good enough.

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