Posted on Jul 27, 2018
Pentagon creating software 'do not buy' list to keep out Russia, China
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Is this something new? Gawd, I hope not. Surely, our fearless leaders at the Pentagon aren't that stupid...
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Will it matter that we're typing on our Chinese computer with Chinese and Russian chip sets on them?
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1stSgt Nelson Kerr
Yes it would, Chipsets and BIOSs/UEFI are pretty easy to validate for harmful code. After all they tend to be TINY in comparison to applications software and operating systems.
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1stSgt Nelson Kerr
Probably not, unless you have some reason to think so. And using ANYTHING else would at this point become horrendously expensive, that ship sailed decades ago.
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