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"before servers are put into production at Apple they are inspected for security vulnerabilities" A chip smaller than a grain of rice nested between motherboar
by matchagaucho 8y ago
"before servers are put into production at Apple they are inspected for security vulnerabilities"
A chip smaller than a grain of rice nested between motherboard layers.
What tools could detect such a chip?
While I don't doubt Apple inspects, the zero-day threat always exists.
- baybal2 8y agoXray inspection by a human specialist
- sterlind 8y agoFurther in the article, Bloomberg mentions a chip, smaller than a pencil tip, sandwiched inside the PCB itself, under other traces. That seems bananas difficult to pull off, but could x-ray inspection find such a thing if it existed?
- baybal2 8y agoI specifically mention non-automatic inspection as automatic one may well not have the "paranoid mode," unlike a human who specifically told to go over every individual square millimetre.
- matchagaucho 8y agoMinimum quantity orders for these servers are typically 10,000. Even at 1,000, I don't see how humans could reliably detect this.
- minxomat 8y agoYes, because the incident they reference was a mid-PCB-layer chip discovered by govt agencies using X-rays. The findings were presented at a private conference in Virginia. Sources who attended said "they've seen the xray pictures" etc.