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Bloomberg reporter of challenged ‘Big Hack’ story gets promoted

• msie 7y ago
  Tell Fake News, Get Promoted!
• chews 7y ago
  How is that not really what was possible - https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/90758/hacking/usbanywhere-supermicro-bmc-flaws.html https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/90758/hacking/usbanywhe... I get it, he called it a "spy-chip" but the BMC really did have exploitable attack surface.
  • cuchulain 7y ago
    The difference between a purported nation-state backed subversion of supply chain and manufacturing lines, and poor security in the firmware of the BMC, is still night and day though, and still not what the original article claimed.
• xrayzerone 7y ago
  “The Wire” in its last season thought-provokingly explores this topic. What got me was the big lie was comprised of a mesh of micro-decisions, not a big monolithic deception.