[Cryptography] Plot to brick BIOS (was Re: General Keith.. so great to see you..
Caspar Bowden (lists)
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Thu May 8 03:17:45 EDT 2014
On 07/05/14 13:10, John Young wrote:
> ...At 10:28 PM 5/6/2014, you wrote:
>> On Tue, 6 May 2014 13:12:13 -0700
>> coderman <coderman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/5/6/nsa-chief-google.html
>>
>>
>> " NSA cyberdefense chief Debora Plunkett in December disclosed
>> that the agency had thwarted a âEURoeBIOS plotâEUR? by a
>> âEURoenation-state,âEUR?
>> identified as China, to brick U.S. computers. "
Have not understood what is laughable about this. Is this supposedly
technically absurd (I don't see why)
This appears also to be alluded to in FOIed Google emails
<http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/5/6/nsa-chief-google.html>:
* /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./
* Is that about UEFI - and what exactly? Is "Enduring Security
Framework" taking the credit/blame for UEFI "secure" boot?
It's quite important whether this is "let's-brick-all-of-US-plot" was
true/untrue - why aren't people focussing on that?
CB
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