what they describe isn't possible. which is perhaps why Apple et al. are easily able to refute it. what actually occurred must be something a bit different, th

what they describe isn't possible. which is perhaps why Apple et al. are easily able to refute it. what actually occurred must be something a bit different, that they didn't understand and/or aren't conveying accurately or didn't receive accurate info due to it being classified. or you know, because the general press is still at movie technology ... the hacker is in the building! A chip the size of a pencil point can't be inserted anywhere useful or do anything meaningful. Something that small amounts to a discrete component, not a "chip", if packaged. If bare die, it still can't be vastly complex and needs to be mounted in a way that is very obvious (epoxy blob). So, it must be an additional discrete that inhibits the burning of a W/O fuse in the BMC or some other management function. Thus preventing the disabling of some debug function. There is no way it has communication capability, etc, on its own. EDIT: ah, @baybal2 perhaps figured it out. it's likely flash memory and the bmc already has provision to read it as the "recovery" flash.