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Re:NSA Said to Have Used Heartbleed Bug for at Least Two Yea... by monocasa on Friday September 20, 2019 @06:54PM (#21032125)
There's a difference between one guy chasing ghosts, and several sources anonymously saying "we found this and had to mitigate it".
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Re:NSA Said to Have Used Heartbleed Bug for at Least Two Yea... by segfaultbuserr on Friday September 20, 2019 @07:06PM (#21032193)
Well, a year later, we still haven't seen the backdoor chip in question being taken to a lab or DEFCON yet... Even the photograph was fake, just a stock photo...

I was excited to read the news story, and it was a huge disappointment.

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Re:NSA Said to Have Used Heartbleed Bug for at Least Two Yea... by monocasa on Friday September 20, 2019 @07:32PM (#21032362)
We also haven't seen the devices in the NSA's TAO catalog taken to a lab or showing up at DEFCON. That's half the point of targeted hardware attacks.

And yeah, it was a graphic that wasn't entirely accurate; welcome to print journalism.

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