Is there a chance smartcards have a backdoor? (was Re: Any future for the Crypto Stick?)

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Il 08/12/2013 14:15, Mark Schneider ha scritto:

> A little security is not real security. There always can be backdoors in
> the firmware (BIOS, closed source drivers etc).
Why is everyone thinking 'BIOS' as backdoorable piece of sw? Why not the
hard disk?
http://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack

Just another piece to think of when building a secure system...

BYtE,
 Diego.