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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 07/05/14 13:10, John Young wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:E1Whzjf-00020f-IG@elasmtp-junco.atl.sa.earthlink.net"
type="cite">...At 10:28 PM 5/6/2014, you wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">On Tue, 6 May 2014 13:12:13 -0700
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coderman <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:coderman@gmail.com"><coderman@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/5/6/nsa-chief-google.html">http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/5/6/nsa-chief-google.html</a>
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" NSA cyberdefense chief Debora Plunkett in December
disclosed
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that the agency had thwarted a “BIOS plot†by a
“nation-state,â€
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identified as China, to brick U.S. computers. "
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Have not understood what is laughable about this. Is this supposedly
technically absurd (I don't see why)<br>
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This appears also to be alluded to in <a
href="http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/5/6/nsa-chief-google.html">FOIed
Google emails</a>:<br>
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<li><i>Alexander: For example, over the last 18 months, we
(primarily Intel, AMD [Advanced Micro Devices], HP
[Hewlett-Packard], Dell and Microsoft on the industry side)
completed an effort to secure the BIOS of enterprise platforms
to address a threat in that area.</i></li>
<li>Is that about UEFI - and what exactly? Is "Enduring Security
Framework" taking the credit/blame for UEFI "secure" boot?<br>
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It's quite important whether this is "let's-brick-all-of-US-plot"
was true/untrue - why aren't people focussing on that?<br>
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CB<br>
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