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Brazil's lower house approves bill to cut Bolsonaro's jail term​

BRASILIA, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Brazil's lower house early on Wednesday approved a bill that could potentially cut former President Jair Bolsonaro's prison term from 27 years to just over two if the Senate also backs the measure.

Last month, Bolsonaro began serving his 27-year sentence for unsuccessfully plotting a coup against his successor, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, after losing the 2022 election.

The bill, approved in a 291-148 vote, reduces sentences for those convicted over anti-democratic acts that resulted in a January 8, 2023 riot, when Bolsonaro supporters invaded and ransacked the presidential palace, Supreme Court and Congress.

It still requires Senate approval and could face challenges at the Supreme Court.

The congressman sponsoring the bill, Paulinho da Força, estimated it could cut Bolsonaro's jail term to just over two years.

A preliminary version of the bill put forward by opposition lawmakers would have pardoned those involved in "political demonstrations" from October 30, 2022 onward, but da Força ruled out granting them full amnesty.

"There is no possibility of amnesty," the congressman said. "We spoke with all the parties, and the only viable project to pacify Brazil is the reduction of sentences."
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27 years to just over two if the Senate also backs the measure.
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The bill, approved in a 291-148 vote
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You are talking like Windows is the only OS and open source OS doesn't exist. Linux and derivatives do exist which are secure and completely open for inspection so that no software backdoor can exist. The OS acts as the central authority, controlling the CPU's privilege levels. Even drivers loaded from a chip must ask the OS for permission to access resources, like sending data packets. Its completely impossible for any backdoor piece of code to gain access to the network interface without OS permission.

Firewalls (both host and network-based) monitor all outbound traffic. A hardware backdoor trying to exfiltrate data would still need to use the Network Interface Card and transmit data, which network boundary firewalls and Intrusion Detection Systems are specifically designed to flag as unauthorized communication.

Finally, its too risky for a trillion dollar company to implement such a backdoor. The reputational damage will be too huge. We are talking the entire world and most of the top corps no longer trusting NVDIA products. Then there could be criminal charges and fines. NVDIA execs in China could be arrested for example. No company can justify doing these things. they would rather leak this to the outside world even if US govt forces them to do it.

There is tendency to come up with conspiracy theories against US where everything has a backdoor and CIA is all powerful entity that can spy on anything. When you think logically, you can see its all just BS.
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You're just saying your average app programmer or 3rd year writing Pyhton can't build backdoors, and that's true, but real backdoors operate at microcode level, data that gets injected by the separate hardware on the chip, between the compute unit and I/O unit, or just code that make use of vulnerabilities that might or might not be known. Saying firewalls can prevent backdoors is like saying you're safe from spying because you installed a lock on your door: someone who want to spy on you ain't knocking asking to be let in.

That's not to say having controlled hardware everywhere is meaningless, it certainly makes the job much harder if every layer between the GPU and reporting server runs on Huawei metal, but again counter-espionage isn't about what you know, its protecting against what you don't, and the only way to protect against what you don't know is not use Nvidia chips to begin with.

As for reputation, lol, you're talking about people who openly brag about installing backdoors, these are not people who care about reputation at home, and they're also people who already lost their reputation from China's perspective, e.g. Nvidia might get banned if they have backdoors, aannd they were banned.
 
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