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Re:The US nuclear forces’ messaging system finally got rid o... by aussieguy1234 on Friday October 18, 2019 @12:47AM (#21288765)
Unless its been tampered with in the factory or in transit for delivery, the NSA has been known to modify hardware in transit for spying purposes.
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Re:The US nuclear forces’ messaging system finally got rid o... by willis936 on Friday October 18, 2019 @07:03AM (#21290287)
So its either have an old system that is trivially compromised or have a new system that has the potential of having an unknown backdoor.
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