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Ronald Minnich of LinuxBIOS on EFI

Posted Feb 8, 2007 1:22 UTC (Thu) by lutchann (subscriber, #8872)
In reply to: Ronald Minnich of LinuxBIOS on EFI by zlynx
Parent article: Second batch of FOSDEM interviews

If the firmware warrants so much scrutiny then of course the hardware (which is even more likely to be from China) can't be trusted either. Do you think they decap and trace every chip in every computer used in a classified environment?

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Posted Feb 9, 2007 16:36 UTC (Fri) by moxfyre (subscriber, #13847) [Link]

Maybe not, but they have TEMPEST to prevent unwanted electromagnetic emmissions, and classified computer networks are physically isolated from non-classified networks. So that rules out a lot of the shenanigans that could happen...