Onno (VK6FLAB)

Anything and everything Amateur Radio and beyond. Heavily into Open Source and SDR, working on a multi band monitor and transmitter.

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  • So … the reality of this is that these vulnerabilities exist for all microchips, since the purchaser and the user have absolutely no insight into the innards of any of this.

    Microchips are made all over the globe and rarely … if ever … in a country where the political system matches your own, unless you happen to live in the country where the chips you’re using are actually manufactured there and even then you don’t know who is watching what.

    In other words, this is not a new issue, nor is it limited to one country, it affects all of us.

    While we’re at it, software has exactly the same issues.

    Why do you think that ICT professionals keep advocating for open source solutions?