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China is bragging about "capturing" NSA crapware called NOPEN
Actually, Nopen was also released by a hacker group 5 years ago. Maybe there's something new about what China did.

This crapware can infect any device that uses Linux, from a PC to a microwave oven. People don't realize that Microsoft and Apple are not the champs, LINUX is. Linux runs on every Android device, nearly every file server on the web, every router, your televison, your DVD player, your set top box, your smart fridge Your Window's PC, in the UEFI system, at the processor level you never see - - EVERYTHING runs Linux because Linux is not only more powerful than anything else, it's free. Why would manufacturers pay to use Microsoft or Apple operating systems when there's one just as good or better they can use for free?

In systems that don't already have the Linux back door at the processor level, (processors use Minix for their management engine - a small Linux distro). In processors that are old enough to not have that but still have a Linux OS installed by the user NOPEN exploits SUDO to install. Sudo gets the NSA into the old stuff. SUDO was a BAD IDEA, and was only created to make linux and insecure operating system. 15 years ago Sudo did not exist. Now you have to use it to do anything. That's a long story . . . . a perpetual gripe I have . . . . anyway China may not have been all that creative because NOPEN was part of a huge 2017 hacker release. Maybe the hackers released a stripped down version? I noticed that happened with that release, China might have captured the 2022 updated version in full form . . . .

Anyway this is old news I have harped on over and over and over again and have devolved to only mentioning occasionally - passwords are bull****. Passwords are to keep "Aunt Edna" out. They don't work against anyone who's legit, there are no modern systems out there now that the NSA cannot walk all over, totally, 100 percent, and crush like a marshmallow. HTTPS is for idiots who want to give pre-schoolers a way to shut them down. There is no safe refuge, not even in mobile processors. Russia may have cool anti aircraft missiles but if they did not address this problem, an F-35 is just going to switch them off. Hell, even an F-16 might. This hack is almost guaranteed to be how the Russian built S-300 Iranian systems failed to identify their own Iranian airliner as friendly a couple years back - the one they shot down themselves. At that time I said they were hacked and that's what caused it. NOPEN ought to be a real ****show when it really gets used.
BY THE WAY, the MINIX based management engines have THOUSANDS of NSA back doors in them, and those back doors do not all get put into one hackware platform. If the NSA loses one the way they lost NOPEN, they just launch another or even "update" NOPEN with a new list and then keep that as secure as they can, it won't matter what anyone tries to patch.
OMG, now I might "get a knock". Well, not dear anymore NSA, when the government that is your life blood just tried to wipe out as much of the country as possible with a death shot - when you are supporting an impostor president who truly is hell bent on destroying the country and you damn well know it, I'll do as much damage as possible, any way I can. The world really would be better off if Russia won. That does not make russia great, it means YOU ARE ABSOLUTE SH*T.
The Russians really should have developed their own processors for their weapons systems, but no, they were either too lazy or too stupid. How is World War Z going to go when that NSA exploit becomes the missile's guidance system? Just ask Iran. Maybe not. They most likely never figured it out. Russia's going to launch missiles at F-35's and then down their own planes if they are anywhere within range if American intelligence deems that to be expedient and the command will come right from the plane the missile is supposed to shoot down.