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6 years ago in #deepdives by palikari123 (64)
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I personally found NSAKey in Win98 in the registry back in the day. I am not confident such a key did not exist in prior software products released by Microshaft, and indeed, all commercial OSes and commercial softwares.
My assumption is they did, and always has been. Further I am confident that all commercially available chips are provided with backdoors by manufacturers.
Unless you have written the code yourself, designed, and crafted the chip yourself, the assumption should be that it is not secure.
Thanks!
Hey @valued-customer. First of all apologies for the delayed reply. I'm having huge issues with my own PC ATM and I actually thought at one stage that I wasn't going to be able to complete this article by the deadline, so it's a slightly watered down version of what I was originally planning! I completely agree with your comments. As users of these technologies we really are at the mercy of these manufacturers who design these systems and software with these built in back doors and exploits provided by the intelligence apparatus. Unless as you say, you code and build it yourself, just assume it's not completely secure and will be used as a data collection and monitoring service. I also think they were built this way from day one, anticipating the information world we would be living in currently...Thanks for your input!
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Back doors Bug doors, there also are a few 'bugs' that mysteriously got ignored and 'muted' from the knowledge base. And those later turned out to be very popular with the spy agencies. Back then it was easy to find these bugs in the knowledge base, as those where the ones where a description was missing.
It was stuff like this, that made me move away from Micro$oft
Great article @palikari123
Ty @bifilarcoil:) The bugs are always there lol.
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Thanks for the deep dive. It's interesting and scary. Information is power however and I am better off after reading this. I assumed for a long time that these people had backdoors into everything. I shared on the other entry earlier that all of this stuff is simply just the hand-me-downs of the military industrial complex. Stuff like this they perfect it to a point where they can take full advantage of it and then release it to the public and watch as the data they want rolls right in. It's a sad reality where these backdoors exist but also that people willingly let these things happen. For example, you download an app and it asks you for permission to see your contacts, your photos and other personal data on your phone such as what Fakebook requests. I did at one point, accept it without even giving it a second thought! I have since deleted my Fakebook app and account but so many people just give them all the access they want without having a second thought. Then the complaining years later when they are told that they sell all of their information as if that was something you couldn't figure out with a little bit of critical thinking.
Keep up the dives! I enjoy reading them.
Go suck the balls of your downvote ring you ass licking fag.
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