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user-inactivated  ·  2560 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Best & Worst Laptop Brands 2017: Apple drops

This article implies that in order to spy for Chinese intelligence agencies, firmware is capable of instalation on NIC cards and sniffing in/out going traffic.





dublinben  ·  2560 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, that is certainly a remote possibility with proprietary firmware on any network card. There is little to no evidence of actual cases of such an attack, and even if they were, they'd be very targeted.