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Re:Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA ... by dna_polymerase on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @02:33PM (#37574162)
Crypto matters for exactly this reason. All my internet traffic passes through unsafe middle-boxes, it is TLS and DH that make sure I can pass through untrusted middlemen without them knowing what is going on.
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Re:Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA ... by slt2021 on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @04:30PM (#37576083)
Cavium chips are installed on security appliances (lol): think Palo alto firewall, fortinet firewall, F5 Big-IP etc.

they will see your traffic in plain text by design

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Re:Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA ... by irreticent on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @05:22PM (#37576928)
If everything is encrypted then you're safe... until you decrypt the data on a machine with a backdoored CPU.
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