Re:Worried about Huawei? Take a closer look at Tencent
by huffmsa on Friday March 29, 2019 @07:39AM
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Sent me into a small panic there. But I remembered I've got work and play on separate OSes, on separate encrypted disks.
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Re:Worried about Huawei? Take a closer look at Tencent
by close04 on Friday March 29, 2019 @08:44AM
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Still in the same system and network I assume. If you are an "irrelevant" target let's say, one where there are no stakes in getting to you, this is good enough. Otherwise it's a matter of getting into your UEFI or disk firmware (since both disk share the same system), or rest of the network (router, IoT crap, another system, etc.) and the fact that you have an encrypted disk won't matter that much.
It's about how important a target you are. You only have to make one mistake, and "they" only have to get it right once. There's no defense that you can put up against a team of dedicated hackers with nation state backing unless you are either not on their radar, or have nothing inherently hackable in your life.