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Comment Airborne AIDS (Score 0) 140

by barnett490 on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @11:44PM (#59741696) Attached to: Why Are HIV Drugs Being Used To Treat the New Coronavirus?

Because this is similar to "airborne AIDS"--look at how it binds like HIV and how it apparently mutates.

Comment Re:Does it Matter? (Score 1) 49

by barnett490 on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @02:59PM (#59740208) Attached to: Five Years After the Equation Group HDD Hacks, Firmware Security Still Sucks

What's to say you didn't insert your own backdoored chips which have an identical copy of the silicon which can run the "verified" firmware and now has a few undocumented functions?

You CANNOT perfectly lock down a system.

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