Originally posted by dee.
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Why would the NSA bother sticking backdoors in easily reverse engineered (and bypassed) firmware files when they could just as easily stick a few extra hidden transistors in the hardware to accomplish the same thing? Unless you are able to get the design specs from NVidia and personally go through billions of transistors, you have no way of knowing what's there.
And in fact, it was recently shown that people in a factory could make their own hidden additions to a cpu without the parent company even being involved in the matter. Meaning unless you hired a trusted guard to watch that hardware from start to finish, you still can't know for sure - and that's assuming the government can't order the guard to look the other way.
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