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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by jki275 on Thursday October 04, 2018 @12:05PM (#18141114)
The amount of false positives a system like that would generate would rapidly render such a system entirely unusable.
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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by contingencies on Thursday October 04, 2018 @07:36PM (#18144576)
Not in a secure environment... where you are supposed to control the hardware, the software, and the network absolutely.
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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by jki275 on Friday October 05, 2018 @10:00AM (#18148162)
The only way to create such an environment is to totally disconnect it from the outside world -- I'm talking even power source, phones, internet, all of it has to be disconnected or else I can exfil data all day long and nobody would ever know.
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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by contingencies on Friday October 05, 2018 @02:47PM (#18150689)
Yes, but eventually you have to get something done.

Security engineering is about tolerable failure modes. - Dan Geer (2014)

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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by uuuups on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @02:53PM (#18187810)
He was the "first employee and architect @ Kraken (2011-2015)". That might explain why Kraken spews out 502s all the time.
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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by contingencies on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @11:52PM (#18190879)
Dear snarky anonymous coward, as stated I left in 2015. I think you will find referenced issues occurred subsequent to that date under very different technical leadership.
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