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		DeathArrow on Oct 24, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft no longer signs Windows drivers for Proc... What about this old NSA backdoor? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG If MS or Apple or Google or some hardware makers or some communication equipment makers have some backdoors for NSA, why would you think they would do such a poor job that anyone can pay $20k to prove it?

ryanlol on Oct 25, 2021 [–]

I feel like convincing the world to use your backdoored encryption algorithms is a bit more interesting than planting yet another RCE bug in Windows.

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