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From: snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Security?  What "Security"?
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 16:03:56 +0100
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John McCue <jmccue@fuzzball.jmcunx.com> wrote:

> followups trimmed to: comp.misc
> 
> In comp.misc Sn!pe <snipeco.2@gmail.com> wrote:
> > My pet rock Gordon asserts that every networked device has
> > a backdoor. Therefore, anything viewable in clear on that device 
> > is insecure and the quality of message encryption is moot.
> 
> Well I would say Gordon could be correct.  I say that due to
> Intel ME and probably AMD SE:
> 
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine>
>

(nothing to add, I've just corrected the garbled quotation)

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