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Re:Open Letter from Governments to Facebook Is an All-Out At... by solotronics on Monday October 07, 2019 @01:51AM (#21177903)
The encryption works but the endpoints are compromised. The Intel management engine and the AMD equivalent are good examples of how modern hardware is complex enough to seed backdoor hardware into a system.
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Re:Open Letter from Governments to Facebook Is an All-Out At... by raxxorrax on Monday October 07, 2019 @06:13AM (#21179155)
I actually doubt this to be a current and feasible attack vector for mass surveillance.

You could still route around it with software if these components are indeed compromised. Random number generation has always been a hot topic and a problem for deterministic machines, but I doubt there are usable hardware exploits to crack modern encryption.

It could be viable for industrial espionage where systems are even more uniform and it is imperative to keep an eye on that topic and hold hardware developers accountable.

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