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We stand on the brink of global cyber war, warns encryption guru

Christian Berger

Luckily defence is comparatively easy

Just use well designed systems.

Don't use "smart"-phones which are highly complex and let the GSM baseband chip talk directly to the memory of the CPU.

Avoid closed source software.

Try to get your systems as simple as possible.

Educate your users.

A side effect of this is that you get much faster and more reliable systems, which are easier to maintain. Also, if you are a nation state, try to build your own computers and computer chips. If a simple CPU can be designed by a small start-up in the 1970s you surely can do it, too. You don't need to do things like video decoding or 3D graphics on your main CPU, those things can be safely separated into separate chips having their own RAM.

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