just wondering

i partake in evenings.

''smoke''

nice lungs

I vape using my Mighty Vape

$400 tho

ouch

and i get to use the ABV to cook

I mostly do it at night after work to relieve stress and to help sleep

Winning

same dude

I want to know what you all think about something. I talked to my boss about backdoors in firmware the other day and I asked what he would do if the government asked for a backdoor in our products. He said that he wanted me to include a killswitch for the backdoor as well. How do you guys feel about this kind of stuff? What kind of legal trouble do think I could get into if I were to help obstruct alphabet soup bullshit?

try that vape, get high of .15

damn, thats tough one

@I_RUN_DEBAIN_STRETCH

i dont trust gov

sooo maybe yes

a backdoor

they will break in anyway

why cant the govt just ask legally

come on now

Because math, basically. Encryption is fun like that.

I build low level software for embedded critical systems, some of which have networking hardware and can connect to the internet.

hmm

We utilize encryption to create a secure boot chain that starts with hardware. So the system is booted starting with a ROM chip that has a private key hardcoded, and that is used to decrypt firmware such as the first bootloader, then other software like the second bootloader, a kernel, etc.

god i need to nerd more... this is alien to me. sigh.

So the CIA niggers have to have a hardware backdoor OR get us to include a program that's properly signed to allow other crap.

Yeah man, this is what I do for a living. It's a PITA

damn

so stupid

so you have those two options only?

Alright gents. Fucking enjoyed it. Over and out.Shadilay

peace

The third option would be very powerful exploits in the bootROM or primary bootloader. Apple actually had a thing in the iPhone 4 where a segment overflow could be used to get the bootROM to zero itself out in memory.

That's because Apple is fucking stupid. We use ASLR and we never load stuff at 0x0 in memory.

@JarJarBinx shadilay

Apple are fags

They really are. Sucks that I need a Mac for work. It was either this or Windows 10 and there's no way in hell I'm using Windows 10.

@I_RUN_DEBAIN_STRETCH Agreed. Given that apple is basically just a wrapper on BSD and bsd is a *nix based os. couldn't you use those arguments to move to GNU/Linux

it's not like it will cost them anything as long as you can support and maintain it yourself

OS X uses a bunch of proprietary NeXT components and a custom kernel, along with other Apple bullshit. There are a few apps used internally at this company and they only work on OS X and Windows.