"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schreef in bericht
news:1245839.yshsElgC79@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> "Trusted" Computing
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> | Do you imagine that any US Linux distributor would say no to the
> | US government if they were requested (politely, of course) to add
> | a back-door to the binary Linux images shipped as part of their
> | products ? Who amongst us actually uses the source code so helpfully
> | given to us on the extra CDs to compile our own version ? With
> | Windows of course there are already so many back-doors known and
> | unknown that the US government might not have even bothered to
> | ask Microsoft, they may have just found their own, ready to
> | exploit at will. What about Intel or AMD and the microcode on
> | the processor itself ?
> `----
With Linux at least you can check (and people DO check, believe me) if there
are backdoors. With Windows there's no way to know for sure. Even if you
lucky enough to be able to see the source code of Windows through Shared
Source you'll only be able to see 70% of it (I keep wondering what's in the
other 30%!!) and you're not allowed to build it at any time, therefore
making a binary compare between the build version and the retail verion (to
see that the binary is actually based on the source code provided)
impossible.
Ramblings about microcode are nonsense. BIOS would be feasible, though (and
is being done by various governments and virus writers).
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