Hi all,

American traveling to China for IETF, and making my tech prep plans (bringing a laptop, phone, tablet, kindle, and steam deck). I won’t bias with my current plans too much, but I do already run Linux+LUKS and GrapheneOS.

For those with experience, what tech prep would you do?

Thanks!

  • nomad
    2·
    16 hours ago

    Hardware bugs are put on the storage. Allows injecting data into ram or backdooring the OS.

    • dgdft@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      14 hours ago

      I can absolutely see that making sense for a targeted attack.

      Are there bootkits in the wild that can reliably bootstrap to a rootkit on most non-Windows hosts these days? The hard part of that approach would be having a bootkit payload sophisticated enough to escalate to a meaningful form of exfiltration, I imagine.

      • nomad
        1·
        57 minutes ago

        Backdooring initrd is standard stuff. This allows Luks key extraction and upload via staging through the root fs.