1. A decade after #Snowden exposed #Nsa only about 1% of the documents have been published, but three major facts can finally be revealed thanks to a doctoral thesis in applied cryptography by #JacobAppelbaum.
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A decade after Snowden exposed NSA’s mass surveillance in cooperation with the British GCHQ, only about 1 percent of the documents have been published, but three major facts can finally be revealed thanks to a doctoral thesis in applied cryptography …Stefania Maurizi (ComputerWeekly.com)
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in reply to stefania maurizi • • •2. unpublished files from the #Snowden archive (2013) reveal that the #NSA backdoored #Cavium, an American semiconductor company marketing Central Processing Units (CPUs):
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in reply to stefania maurizi • • •3. The #Snowden files date back to 2013. In 2018, #Cavium was acquired by #MarvellTechnology,one of the two firms which, according to financial services giant J.P. Morgan, will dominate the custom-designed semiconductors market driven by AI:
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in reply to stefania maurizi • • •5. #MarvellTechnology to us: "Marvell does not implement “backdoors” for any government".
#MarvellTechnology has NOT replied to our specific questions, but it has provided a statement.
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in reply to stefania maurizi • • •6. #JacobAppelbaum: as the new owner of #Cavium, #MarvellTechnology "should conduct a serious and transparent technical security investigation into the matter and make the result available to the public".
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in reply to stefania maurizi • • •8. According to #JacobAppelbaum's doctoral thesis, Unpublished #NSA documents from the #Snowden archive list their compromise of the #Russian #SORM lawful interceptions infrastructure
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in reply to stefania maurizi • • •9. According to #JacobAppelbaum key EU lawful interception (LI) systems have been compromised by #NSA and/or #GCHQ. We asked him whether the #Snowden files contains a full list of the countries whose LI infrastructures have been compromised
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in reply to stefania maurizi • • •10.#JacobAppelbaum says that the #Snowden archive contains many named target systems, companies, and countries whose #LawfulInterception systems have been compromised by #NSA and/or #GCHQ
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in reply to stefania maurizi • • •11. at NO point does #JacobAppelbaum write or even suggest that #Cavium - acquired by #MarvellTechnology- was complicit in the #NSA sabotage activities or was aware of them
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in reply to stefania maurizi • • •12. #JacobAppelbaum: unpublished #Snowden files reveal #NSA compromised #Russian #LawfulInterceptions system, #SORM and among example targets of its mass surveillance program, PRISM, the #NSA listed the domain of the #TibetanGovernmentInExile: tibet.net
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in reply to stefania maurizi • • •13. When we asked whether the U.S. authorities had contacted the #EindohovenUniversityOfTechnology to object to the publication of some of the revelations from the #Snowden files by #JacobAppelbaum, a university spokesperson replied that they had not
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in reply to stefania maurizi • • •14. How many important revelations like these do the unpublished #Snowden files still contain?
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in reply to stefania maurizi • • •15. #JacobAppelbaum: "Primarily these documents remain unpublished because the journalists who hold them fear they will be considered disloyal or even that they will be legally punished"
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