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A comment on Glenn Greenwald: The NSA tampers with US-made routers. Parent comment

Re:Glenn Greenwald: The NSA tampers with US-made routers by manicdee on Monday May 12, 2014 @06:14PM (#7735711)
Tell me how you propose to verify that the circuitry inside the chip hasn't been invisibly tampered with?
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Re:Glenn Greenwald: The NSA tampers with US-made routers by gss44 on Monday May 12, 2014 @06:27PM (#7735759)
Tell me how that question relates in any way to the statement I was making.

Stating that "...you'd still need to inspect the hardware/software as shipped..." seems to suggest that it's necessary to check each and every unit of a given design. I was just addressing that part of the parent comment directly, along with it's general bias towards what can't be done as opposed to what can.

I wasn't trying to suggest that open codebases are a silver bullet -- but you can improve something without having a complete and comprehensive solution.

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