This response appears to be grasping at straws to try and prove that the described chip doesn't and couldn't exist. It reads like FUD. I find this article to b

This response appears to be grasping at straws to try and prove that the described chip doesn't and couldn't exist. It reads like FUD. I find this article to be much more convincing https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/04/supermicro_bloomberg/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/04/supermicro_bloomber... It points out that 6 pins is enough to intercept and inject code into the SPI bus between the Baseboard Management Controller and it's bootflash. Once you have code running on the BMC, you can use it's capabilities to call home (via either the BMC's nic or the main nic, depending on how well the network firewalls are locked down) and then modify or simply read the main system's memory. I don't want to claim that Bloomberg is right about the attack happening, just that the attack is surprisingly plausible.