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Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel

578 points · 410 comments · luispa

  1. SadErn · · focus · HN ↗
    AI is finishing the job that Snowden started. If we backfill all these holes privacy can be preserved.
    1. autoexec · · focus · HN ↗
      All the good backdoors have got to be in the hardware anyway. There's only a handful of companies making the chips all our systems run on. US companies that can be forced to backdoor their stuff under secret gag orders. I mean, I'm not saying that PSP/CSME subsystems are backdoors, but if I were going to force companies to add one, it'd probably end up looking similar. The blackbox wireless chipsets in all our phones also come from a very small number of companies.
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