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> not much bigger than a grain of rice, that wasn’t part of the boards’ original design. 'original design' is hard to verify without help from SuperMicro. > A
by wyldfire 8y ago
> not much bigger than a grain of rice, that wasn’t part of the boards’ original design.
'original design' is hard to verify without help from SuperMicro.
> Amazon reported the discovery to U.S. authorities, sending a shudder through the intelligence community.
... especially for Amazon. Unless Bloomberg claims here that Amazon got parts of this SKU and compared them to newer parts of the SKU and found differences?
Is it legit to revise your design in terms of changes to passives without rev'ing the part and notifying downstream supply chain. Could the grain-of-rice 'microchip' be a different or new resistor/cap? Could it be logic masquerading as a passive?
> In one case, the malicious chips were thin enough that they’d been embedded between the layers of fiberglass onto which the other components were attached, according to one person who saw pictures of the chips.
Like a passive in a blind/buried via?
Anyways, for everyone who claims "it can't be done", "this is implausible" -- you're probably being a little naive. US intelligence agencies do shipment interdiction and adulterate products for this purpose, [1] why couldn't/shouldn't China do the same?
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/12/glenn-greenwald-nsa-tampers-us-internet-routers-snowden https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/12/glenn-greenwal...