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Mark Atwood
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Professional Open Source Policy Wonk. Shape Rotator. Quiet Mind. Fan of good pens, fine paper, deep writing, skilled work. I learn amazing things, and meet awesome people, and introduce them to each other.
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No HSM by NXP can be trusted now. NXP has some splaining to do. 4/4

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That tells me there is almost certainly similar backdoors in all other NXP HSMs, old and new, including the the ones in your transit cards, credit cards, cellphone SIMS, and in the secure boot HSMs in your laptop. 3/

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... what is a surprise, and what all these articles gloss over is the same backdoor exists in some authentic Phillips NXP chips. The Chinese didn't design a new backdoor, they *copied* one! 2/

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The articles about the discovered backdoor in the chinese clone of the NXP MIFARE keep burying the led. It's not a surprise there is a backdoor in a Chinese HSM. However... 1/

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Does matrix.orgelement.iobeeper.com have "a cryptologic license in France"? The EU and the governments of the member states are big fans of that e2ee group chat protocol, that does everything Telegram does, but better.

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This needs regular repeating: the cloud is not someone else's computer. The cloud is someone else's oncall pager rotation.

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Hello Patreon and everyone else being threatened by Apple to pay the 30% iOS tax. There is a simple and cheap solution to your problem. Stop writing iOS apps! Your apps are just captive browsers running react javascript anyway. Drop your apps, make your websites mobile friendly, and call it done.

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It's an annoying problem, the result of a really stupid SCOTUS decision.

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Huh. "Amazon enforces new office hours rule, targets coffee badging". They are turning the security gates into shift punch clocks: converting all those salary employees into hourly wage staff. Is Amazon ready to pay overtime? Some employment lawyers should take a look.

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Mark Atwood
@mra.bsky.social
Professional Open Source Policy Wonk. Shape Rotator. Quiet Mind. Fan of good pens, fine paper, deep writing, skilled work. I learn amazing things, and meet awesome people, and introduce them to each other.
176 followers139 following158 posts