Am Montag, 5. Mdrz 2012, 13:30:14 schrieb Henning Brauer: > you completely missed the point of my remark. > > most "secure encryption devices" on the market run linux. their > "security" is snake oil. you don't wanna know what I have seen (and I > can't talk about it in most cases)...
This mailing list is not about snake oil products on sale somewhere. The post I replied to asked how one can be sure he runs trusted software and my reply was it doesn't help you if you aren't 100% sure your hardware is kosher. And for all practical purposes you can't. One doesn't have to be 100% paranoid to distrust hardware. Look where almost all desktop and laptop CPUs come from. And where these devices plus their peripherals are made. And again: even 100% secure hardware&software won't protect you against extortion/torture/whatever means to get that piece of info.
