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Why spend 2 paragraphs talking about how DRAM chips cannot be intercepted because of large number of lines only to get to the point later and say "BMC chips are
by fermienrico 8y ago
Why spend 2 paragraphs talking about how DRAM chips cannot be intercepted because of large number of lines only to get to the point later and say "BMC chips are more probable"?
This is obvious. This article is annoying to read.
- floatingatoll 8y agoIt wasn’t obvious to me. I’m glad they took the time to explain that. I never thought that RAM pins were multiplexed. I never thought about RAM pins at all.
- stordoff 8y agoIt seems weird because the Bloomberg article says they were connected to the BMC: > The illicit chips could do all this because they were connected to the baseboard management controller, a kind of superchip that administrators use to remotely log in to problematic servers The discussion of DRAM only really seems necessary if that _isn't_ plausible.