Spooks: Dell Computer Spends Wad on Supply Chain Security

[coderman]

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On Thursday, December 3, 2020 10:00 PM, grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Was it Dell boxes in the "implant room" picture?
> But that was many years ago.


it was cisco getting implanted as part of codename CUSTOMS :
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa-upgrade-factory-show-cisco-router-getting-implant/

NSA has always liked Cisco and Sun (Oracle). back in Klein exhibit you could see Cisco Catalyst and Sun Fire supporting the Narus packet inspection. (writing to Sun StorEdge FC arrays...)
https://www.eff.org/document/public-unredacted-klein-declaration

but it doesn't matter. if your threat model includes up close black bag physical tampering anywhere along the supply chain, commodity hardware is not for you...


best regards,