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From 2016: Report: Apple designing its own servers to avoid snooping Apple suspects that servers are intercepted and modified during shipping. "Apple has long
by IOT_Apprentice 8y ago
From 2016:
Report: Apple designing its own servers to avoid snooping
Apple suspects that servers are intercepted and modified during shipping.
"Apple has long suspected that servers it ordered from the traditional supply chain were intercepted during shipping, with additional chips and firmware added to them by unknown third parties in order to make them vulnerable to infiltration, according to a person familiar with the matter," the report said. "At one point, Apple even assigned people to take photographs of motherboards and annotate the function of each chip, explaining why it was supposed to be there. Building its own servers with motherboards it designed would be the most surefire way for Apple to prevent unauthorized snooping via extra chips."
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/report-apple-designing-its-own-servers-to-avoid-snooping/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/repor...
- solarkraft 8y agoEh? Instead of verifying an existing design they'll just make one themselves? That could be compromised too?
- princekolt 8y agoBecause using a 3rd party design you have to ask or guess what each chip does, and they might not want to tell you everything for IP reasons. When you create your own board, you know what every little chip and trace does exactly, and it's a lot easier to detect a rogue chip.