WarOnPrivacy

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Show threadWarOnPrivacy5d ago

> how do you prove the firmware in the flash chip matches source?

Trusted, qualified independent experts: Ala Underwriters Laboratories.

Show threadWarOnPrivacy5d ago
If we wanted secure products, we wouldn't ban devices. We'd mandate they open their firmware to audits.
Show threadWarOnPrivacy5d ago

The FCC maintains a list of equipment and services (Covered List)
that have been determined to “pose an unacceptable risk to the
national security

Recently, malicious state and non-state sponsored cyber attackers
have increasingly leveraged the vulnerabilities in small and home
office routers produced abroad to carry out direct attacks against
American civilians in their homes.


Vulnerabilities have nothing to do with country of manufacture. They have always been due to manufacturers' crap security practices. Security experts have been trying to call attention to this problem for 2 decades.

Manufacturers have never had to care about security because no Gov agency would ever mandate secure firmware. This includes the FCC which license their devices and the FTC who (until recently) had the direct mandate to protect consumers.

Our most recent step backward was to gut those agencies of any ability to provide consumer oversight. All they they can do now is craft protectionist policies that favor campaign donors.

The US has a bazillion devices with crap security because we set ourselves up for this.

Show threadWarOnPrivacy6d ago

In Firefox + Unlock Origin: Downloads 5.6MB and then stops loading.

Scrolling to the bottom of the page added 3MB of images and then stopped loading.

WarOnPrivacyMar 21

Former FBI Director Robert Mueller Has Died

https://apnews.com/article/robert-mueller-fbi-director-trump-russia-investigation-7aca939dc25d4652815376f73e0f9aaf

Ex-FBI chief Robert Mueller, who probed Russia-Trump campaign ties, dies

Robert S. Mueller III, the FBI director who transformed the nation’s premier law enforcement agency into a terrorism-fighting force after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and who later became special counsel in charge of investigating ties between Russia and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, has died. He was 81. His family says in a statement that Mueller died Friday night. At the FBI, Mueller overhauled the bureau’s mission to meet the law enforcement needs of the 21st century. His 12-year tenure began a week before the Sept. 11 attacks. Later, he was special counsel in the Justice Department’s investigation into whether the Trump campaign illegally coordinated with Russia to sway the outcome of the 2016 presidential race.

AP News