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longislandguidoyesterday at 11:33 PM6 repliesview on HN

> Vulnerabilities have nothing to do with country of manufacture. They have always been due to manufacturers' crap security practices.

Sorry but this is merely a convenient excuse. Source: I have hard evidence of a Chinese IoT device where crap security practices were later leveraged by the same company to inject exploit code. It's called plausible deniability and it's foolish to tell me it's a coincidence.

You're not going to convince me that a foreign state actor pressuring a company to include a backdoor wouldn't disguise it as a "whoopsie, our crap code lol" as opposed to adding in the open with a disclaimer on it.

It's all closed source firmware. Even the GPL packages from most consumer router vendors are loaded with binary blobs. Tell me I should trust it.


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gobinsyesterday at 11:36 PM

Are you saying that other manufacturers don't do this?

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cowpigyesterday at 11:48 PM

What was the company, and what did they inject?

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mindslighttoday at 12:11 AM

And who hasn't seen American software companies where crap security practices are later leveraged by the same company to run exploits? It's of course always phrased in Orwellian terms of business practices, terms of service, "security", etc but we can still call a spade a spade.

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