Re: Installing Debian on an android device
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On Sun, Jul 09, 2017 at 10:46:34PM +0200, deloptes wrote:
> tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
>
> > No need for the bad guys to shoehorn a spy processor on your machine.
[...]
> but it says there it is exploit - so was this intentionally placed there or
> not?
Most probably it is unintentional [1], but in the end: does it matter?
A state-level actor (or equivalent) just has the resources to find
those exploits first. Why go to the length of planting any, since
there is such a rich "natural" source to harvest from? Given recent
events (e.g. WannaCry and its spawn), this seems to be the preferred
modus operandi these days.
> we all know the best way to secure data is to work offline
That would be defaetism :-)
Cheers, anyway
[1] My hazy memory tells me that, æons ago, there was a mysterious
patch to the linux kernel (might well be before the Git era) which
contained a subtle bug. Nobody found out whether that was intentional
or not. Go figure.
- -- tomás
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