back to article The FETT seeks to defeat SSITH defenses as US military goes hard on bug bounties and its Star Wars issues

Two years ago, the US Defense Advanced Research Project Agency introduced a hardware security program called System Security Integration Through Hardware and Firmware, or SSITH. Having evaded a trademark challenge from Disney's lawyers, DARPA is ready to test the kit modifications coming out of that program against hackers. On …

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Devil

    What's next

    Digital Attack Response Through Hacking?

    Virtual Acquisition and Destruction of Enemy Threats?

    1. amanfromMars 1 Silver badge

      Re: What's next

      Digital Attack Response Through Hacking?

      Virtual Acquisition and Destruction of Enemy Threats? ...... HildyJ

      Both are possible, HildyJ, and therefore inevitably probable, and given the rapid and rabid nature of all things virtually controlled and commanded, what's next is most likely already a stealthy sensitive work in secret sensible progress, especially whenever aided and abetted by trial removal and trail quarantine of novel paths found which shine a bright disruptive leading light on the future directions to be mooted and taken.

      And a Digital Attack on Retreats rather than Threats is surely a more effective ploy/play and makes more sense of what's next?

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Re: Special VIP... ...Entry Root

    crikey, the vip entry passes seem to be deleted in this ip range

    1. amanfromMars 1 Silver badge

      Re: Special VIP... ...Entry Root

      crikey, the vip entry passes seem to be deleted in this ip range ..... Anonymous Coward

      Spooky Shenanigans doing the Blind Panic thing, AC, and themselves no favours too in the process, which is a shame for it is immediately counter-productive and extremely revealing.

      The one thing it doesn't do is moderate the situation whenever critical mass reached inflames and energises novel forces and alternative relatively anonymous advanced sources.

      It's like taking a knife to a gunfight ....... which is not, and never ever can be, a real smart move.

  3. EnviableOne

    JEDI vs SSITH

    so cloud vs on prem

    Light vs dark

    1. amanfromMars 1 Silver badge

      Re: JEDI vs SSITH

      JEDI vs SSITH

      so cloud vs on prem

      Light vs dark .... EnviableOne

      Exceptionally good vs pretty awful .... is another reality currently proving its worth and value, EnviableOne

      And GCHQ Bods vs NSA Bots is Yet Another One on the Greater IntelAIgent Games Fields of Almighty Play.

      Where Good Plays Evil with Wrong and Right Teams Doing Battle for Invisible Proxies/Untouchable Beings.

      Any question marks left there would be misleading, thus their conspicuous absence.

      Misleading would be to suggest a 13th Signal Regiment Sortie in an ACTive Progressive Exercise here.

      Although that gives rise to a Kelly's Heroes vs The Dirty Dozen pairing which may be surprisingly accurate :-)

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