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Re:Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA ... by archontes on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @01:06PM (#37572956)
It's clear that they feel that way also. The engineer Andreass Speiss recently appeared in a briefing on dangerous, anarchy-enabling technologies simply for making a youtube video on an encrypted messaging protocol over lora mesh networking.

They're carefully watching and cataloging any communications technology they can't compromise.

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Re:Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA ... by s3p on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @01:52PM (#37573597)
It's also hard to distinguish between legitimate security threats and scare tactics designed to make us think we're in danger. Remember the Bloomberg Supermicro "bombshell"[0]? I still don't know if that was ever confirmed true or false, but to my knowledge Bloomberg never retracted it.

[0] https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/12/supermicro_bloomberg_...

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Re:Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA ... by Lammy on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @02:56PM (#37574582)
I still believe it. Wouldn't surprise me if ASPEED were a "SIGINT enabled" vendor as well. It would be foolish not to target the most widespread BMC platform.
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Re:Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA ... by SamPatt on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @02:17PM (#37573951)
The guy with the Swiss accent?

What's your source on this?

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Re:Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA ... by dariosalvi78 on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @03:15PM (#37574905)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAQI2ZSmxPU
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Re:Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA ... by lawlessone on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @02:43PM (#37574328)
TBF that same tech would probably be great for them or militaries to have.
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Re:Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA ... by dkqmduems on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @02:53PM (#37574517)
Well advertising is a form of psychological warfare.
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Re:Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA ... by madars on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @03:01PM (#37574694)
Which briefing was that?
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Re:Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA ... by dfc on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @05:21PM (#37576920)
The guy's video was linked to from /r/SocialistRA and a screenshot of the link was included in a paper about "How Militant Anarcho-Socialist Networks Use Social Media to Instigate Widespread Violence Against Political Opponents and Law Enforcement." The paper never mentioned Spiess or meshtastic. What are we supposed to infer from that?
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