it's still dystopian to me that yea we just kinda accept that intelligence agencies will literally just hack into consumer product manufacturers and get their hands on all that. i mean realistically what are you going to do i mean the nsa is fucking scary there is not hiding from them if you are targeted by them. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa-upgrade-factory-show-cisco-router-getting-implant/ like they will just fucking backdoor your network equipment lmao
i still can't believe that this shit is buried with time and nobody cares about it anymore. i highly doubt that intelligence agencies stopped doing this, it's just now we don't really know what their methods are.
@icedquinn@blob.cat once you're on their radar i don't think there's really anything you can do to get them off your back apart from just becoming a rural farmer and living the rest of your days avoiding anything with a semiconductor.
@icedquinn@blob.cat i feel like the only way to avoid this is to just not have the nsa going after you as a target of interest. i don't think there's really stopping them if they're willing to intercept stuff to that level. i mean i knew this was one of the reasons why yubikey offers a service to make sure there's no chain of ownership compromise like this.