[Cryptography] trojans in the firmware

[Dave Horsfall]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2015, Henry Baker wrote:

> I (and most everyone else, as well) no longer care about booting from 
> "hard" disks.  Everyone boots from flash memories these days.

Unless your meaning of "boots from flash memories" differs from mine, then 
I don't.

My Mac has a real disk.  My FreeBSD server has a real disk.  My Debian 
lapdog has a real disk.  The only outsider is my ancient EeePC-701, which 
I haven't switched on for ages (and even then, it ran M0n0wall).

Heck, even my old CP/M stuff uses floppy...

Of course, if you're going to argue that an EPROM/EEPROM/etc (or even a 
diode matrix, or on the CDC series a switch panel) then that's a different 
argument.

Please don't make bald assertions such as "Everyone does this" or "Nobody 
does that", otherwise you will be demonstrably incorrect.

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