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Comment by fbdab103

I am curious what other industries are likely to have booby-trapped software which has not yet been discovered. It was only through some weird circumstances + dedicated investigation by the hacker group (I thought they were given months of access to the hardware) that this was uncovered. Most organizations do not have the resources to investigate equipment behaving oddly.

For example, if HP programs printers to start failing after N pages printed, would that ever be uncovered?

Is there some kind of whistleblower law that would allow someone with knowledge to come forward?

parent fbdab103 2 years ago

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