Intel Inside = NSA Inside

[Unarmed Gunman]

Developers of the FreeBSD operating system will no longer allow users to trust processors manufactured by Intel and Via Technologies as the sole source of random numbers needed to generate cryptographic keys that can't easily be cracked by government spies and other adversaries.

The change, which will be effective in the upcoming FreeBSD version 10.0, comes three months after secret documents leaked by former National Security Agency (NSA) subcontractor Edward Snowden said the US spy agency was able to decode vast swaths of the Internet's encrypted traffic. Among other ways, The New York Times, Pro Publica, and The Guardian reported in September, the NSA and its British counterpart defeat encryption technologies by working with chipmakers to insert backdoors, or cryptographic weaknesses, in their products.

source: We cannot trust� Intel and Via's chip-based crypto, FreeBSD developers say | Ars Technica

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[qibrandmgmt]

Awww sweet a Bitcoin thread! Haven't seen one of these in ages.

 

[LiamLennon]

For sure, those processor chips shouldn't be trusted. I am putting tin foil on top of mine right now.
I seen the same article, I was glad to see it on the G news home page. Typically when it is on the HP, there is some attention on the topic.
The processor chips are at the center of the whole connected world.

 

[mpbiz]

Next thing you know we'll find out that they've been inserting backdoors into our brains for years.

 

[User9364]

Well, at least World of Warcraft is still safe.