Reply to post: Re: Encryption? Heard of it?

Have YOU got Equation NSAware in your drives? Meh, not really our concern, says EU

Christian Berger

Re: Encryption? Heard of it?

Well that wouldn't help as the boot loader will always be read unencrypted. You could simply load your malware from there and then hand over control to the real boot loader.

And since modern x86 CPUs are so mind bogglingly complex they have lots of ways to hide.

What we'd need are simpler systems with less spaces to hide.

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