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So would the FSB, PRC Army, North Korea, etc… The fact that a faulty update can get pushed by human error means that adversaries can, too.


They might just have it, remember when the night of the Russian invasion of Ukraine satellite terminals in Europe started being bricked with faulty firmware updates?


I can all but guarantee that very little of the actual coding was done by U.S. citizens.


Hence why Kaspersky got banned just recently [1]. You absolutely do not want some foreign company having above-root rights on (critical) infrastructure in your country.

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/15/tech/russian-firm-kaspers...




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