Comment by cryptonector

Comment by cryptonector 2 days ago

It's difficult enough to secure the supply chain towards the OEM as it is. It's nigh impossible for a vendor/OEM to secure the supply chain towards retail and distribution, not relative to nation-state attackers of great sophistication and with huge budgets. This sort of thing could happen with any smartphone, any feature phone, laptops, etc. Though it was a lot easier to mount this attack given an order for thousands of units from one company.

msh 2 days ago

> This sort of thing could happen with any smartphone

The amount of intelligence services that could pull this off if you ordered iphones directly from apple is very very low.

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pvaldes 2 days ago

A man in the middle redirecting to a fake web page could be enough to create an opportunity. I assume that in some countries hacking the internet could be still possible.
Or a terrorist could sell phones on the street for months, use them as sleeping devices, and wait until a big holiday or the super-bowl to spread chaos massively with minimum risk for him/her. So now we everybody need a way to be able to scan our devices and detect that risk ASAP. The Mossad still don't understand the mess that had created for every westerner by opening this door.

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- echoangle 2 days ago
  
  How would you man in the middle a website or “hack the internet”? Every modern browser uses TLS.
  
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  pvaldes 2 days ago
  
  I wouldn't, but I assume that somebody with knowledge and motivation could. Phishing is still a problem. Do every country use modern browsers?
  (UPDATED: I really wrote Fishing? LOL)
  
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  underlipton 2 days ago
  
  You only need to do that if you're targeting someone. If your goal is terror, you just sell as a 3rd party on Amazon.
  
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