[Wikimedia-l] Dells are backdored

[FastLizard4]

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Tinfoil hat time!

Yes, the NSA stuff is a big deal, but saying that we're paying taxes to
Microsoft and the NSA?  Even if you mean taxes in a figurative sense,
someone would be getting money from the WMF to buy hardware, and if the
NSA can backdoor Dell, they could easily backdoor whatever hardware that
gets used instead, if they really wanted to.

Arguably, cheaper or in-house hardware could end up being easier to
backdoor or exploit.
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Sincerely,
Andrew "FastLizard4" Adams
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On 12/29/2013 4:55 AM, James Salsman wrote:
> Can we please stop paying the Microsoft and NSA taxes and start buying
> datacenter equipment which costs a lot less? Cubieboard/Cubietrucks for
> instance?
> 
> Ref.:
> http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/catalog-reveals-nsa-has-back-doors-for-numerous-devices-a-940994.html
> 
> Best regards,
> James

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