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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
If you use computers that are made by a US firm that strongly supports the one party. I wouldn't be surprised they were hacked every time.
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Doubt that,
But some Chinese manufacturer's have been caught embedding code in chips. But I can't say I follow the exact logic for hacking this way unless they become inside out activations.
Depends on the code and what they have access to. Probably find out one day in the future. The government never said what kind of chips these were.
but then again you have this...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-k...-idUSKBN1AA2XM
For some background, I doubt very much the Kaspersky corporate officials have anything to do with making segments of the antivirus software a gateway to hacking. Employee's ???
But know that AV software puts locks on your files for protective events so it has full rights and access to your machine and most likely access to the connected network if the machine itself has rights AND that it needs continuous updating to stay on top of latest signature's of threats. Large systems run the AV software from the file server itself and has access to the network connected machines.
I have complained about 'updaters' of all products being a potential gateway to a hack for at least 14 years.
And I have had my suspicions of Kaspersky Labs for 2 of those. The US government wants it off all it's machines right away.(since the election). Many in the corporate world were ahead of them. I think even the Chinese were taking advantage of the situation.
There is news and there are things that happen that you never hear about cause nobody wants to 'scare you' away from trust.
If you actually knew how vulnerable you all are you would be quite upset.
Someone else's problem to fix right ?
Assuming the corporate world and the Government get a handle on their problems, who is going to fight for you and yours ?