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The response is equally interesting. I wouldn't have assumed people would be so quick to jump to "Well, private US companies are lying to the public because the

• Alex3917 8y ago
  > I wouldn't have assumed people would be so quick to jump to "Well, private US companies are lying to the public because the US government is compelling them to." I mean ask Joe Nacchio how going up against the NSA worked out.
• RL_Quine 8y ago
  The reason for that response is: * this all seems within reason, knowing the hardware * the denials are unusually strong If any of it is true or not I don't know, but the IPMI stuff is crappy, if not backdoored.
  • dboreham 8y ago
    Since everyone assumed IPMI was crappy and potentially backdoored, that's why the story seems fishy. Why go to science fiction lengths to subvert some easily subervertable thing?
    • jarfil 8y ago
      The described hack is nowhere near science fiction levels. Even embedding a bare silicon chip in the layers of a board would be factible.
      • RL_Quine 8y ago
        As I referred to in the original thread, this is a commonplace construction method.
      • dboreham 8y ago
        I suppose I meant "presented as science fiction". I formerly worked as a hardware design engineer so I'm pretty familiar with what's actually science fiction ;)
  • eksemplar 8y ago
    Are they unusually strong? I work in government, we take these allegations really serious. The data we house in the cloud simply can’t be compromised. We’re apparently home free by using Azure, but I think the responses are justified if the story is fake.