LOL! Ernst Stavros Blofeld, cute!
That's the character in Ian Fleming's James Bond novels and the one mocked in the recent "Austin Power" series. Nice, very nice indeed - I wish SPECTRE were the culprit, but that would be just too easy.
For the post responders, especially marxmarv, I think the point blofeld is trying to make is that if the code we here in the United States use for our day-to-day work is produced in foreign countries and has the serious potential to unnecessarily expose us to malicious attacks, then it should be forced to be developed here. I'm no computer expert, but Wiki'd the processor ring 0/1 point in the post and kind of get it. Blofeld can tell me otherwise, but if the Congressionally mandated law states that there'd be no foreign code elements that fundamentally interface with the processor (e.g., OSes, etc.) then it maybe far easier to control the source/spread. It's not easy to identify, capture and prosecute a foreign culprit - especially if it happens to be on the payroll of the Russians or Chinese; Especially not on SPECTRE payroll.
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