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The fact that they’re not committing their changes under a pseudonym or front company suggests that they’re okay with the world knowing about what they’re up to. Same with their reverse-engineering toolkit.

What Snowden publicized was, for the most part, completely hidden from the view of society. The NSA wasn’t coming to tech conferences announcing their new surveillance tools.

Don’t think that the new parts of Coreboot won’t attract scrutiny from security-conscious companies and individuals.



> The fact that they’re not committing their changes under a pseudonym or front company suggests that they’re okay with the world knowing about what they’re up to.

They are not committing their most secretive and effective tools on GitHub for Christ's sake.


what snowden released had several previously public benign components.




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