Comment Re:What's the problem? (Score 1, Insightful) 168
And yet there is no age restriction on reading the Bible with its drunkness, incest, rape, murder, infanticide, and genocide.
Hans Kristian Graebener = StoneToss
Since we know more power will be needed, perhaps we should start working on the problem now. Maybe use something like AI to work out possible avenues to approach the problem.
Oh wait.
Well, at least they make it harder for NSA and CIA to hack Chinese systems.
No, just the opposite. They are providing every western intelligence agency with a fixed target with zero chance of collateral damage by withholding information about flaws. You may not know this but the NSA reports low-hanging fruit because they want the software to be more secure but they keep all the really good hacks secret. Without any collateral damage from withholding information about stupid flaws, they are going to amass a gigantic horde of exploits.
The smart move would be to make a cheap x86_64 server processor that is sold worldwide. Also, the irony of China calling other countries hostile is brilliant.
You are conflating the Intel Management Engine and the AMD Platform Security Processor which are very different in their purpose. The PSP can be immediately shutdown upon firmware execution. However, IME can't be shutdown but it can be contained.
That said, they did remove the PSP from the Hygon Dhyana chip. This is desirable for security but they also made many other changes and any one of them could be a fatal mistake. It's still an idiotic move.
various Microsoft tools - such as the setup programs for SQL Server Management Studio - like to lock out the Explorer window
I've not observed that behavior in a long time...and as it happens, Winget is upgrading SSMS as I type this. Everything else continues to work as normal while it does its thing.
Not trying to be rude but I disagree with most of your points.
The same could be said of the US using domestic CPUs and operating systems.
There is a significant difference: EVERYBODY uses these CPU/OSes (allies and enemies included) so you have a lot more security experts looking at them. The CCP would need to mandate domestic chips for all of China if you wanted a similar effect.
China has been using domestic CPUs for a while now, and nothing cataclysmic has happened.
You don't know that. Intel agencies are not advertising their discoveries or exploits. The more valuable the exploit, the less it's used, so they may have already used it or they may just be sitting on it until it's really needed.
It's well known that the NSA ensured some US crypto was weakened so that they could crack it.
My understanding is that It's theorized but not proven that the K table provided for a crypto algorithm used in SSL (RSA?) was modified to weaken it. Without any proof it's highly suspicious but hardly damning. It's been a full decade so if I'm misremembered then please correct me.
It would be really interesting to know if their crypto is backdoored by their own security services.
I find it unlikely as they are mandating that all government systems use these crypto algos and they are publicly published. Given the recent scrutiny that recent crypto algos have come under, it seems likely that a potential backdoor would have been pointed out by someone.
Was in, in fact, a prince? or was he not? I think we've confirmed that he IS actually being persecuted, so that part of the story pans out.
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This is an idiotic move because they are effectively putting a HUGE target on the processor(s) and motherboards they use and there is zero incentive for non-CCP white hat hackers to investigate hardware bugs. Moving to a Chinese government specific OS is going to have the same issue.
They might as well change their processor's logo to a giant bullseye.
1) I'm not suggesting a tariff, I'm suggesting an import tax. The distinction is important.
2) Who said anything about country of origin? China simply happens to be the primary location it's imported from.
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