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Let me ask a question: it is possible? I think it is. Has the NSA / CIA / some other TLA done this? If it's possible, and it's useful for their 'mission' --
by GeorgeTirebiter 6y ago
Let me ask a question: it is possible? I think it is. Has the NSA / CIA / some other TLA done this? If it's possible, and it's useful for their 'mission' -- hard for me to believe they have NOT done this, or something like it. Paranoid? maybe; but I've seen too much, heard too much.
- alasdair_ 6y agoFrom random articles I once read (i.e. hardly authoritative) the US TLAs focused heavily on intercepting packages in transit, modifying them, then forwarding them on rather than rooting the entire production line. But obviously that's just the stuff that was publicized.
- henryfjordan 6y agoFor a secret chip in a server to be useful, it needs to emit a signal, send data over the network, or be manually retrieved. If that were happening at any scale, someone would notice (especially in a data center). If secret chips were going to be used, they'd be very targeted in nature (like a fake Comcast modem that they give to a specific target) rather than something general.
- rmrfstar 6y agoI wouldn't be so confident. If you have something running in the BMC, you can do literally anything. In this case "anything" might mean transmitting a single bit of information that "this is an interesting box, come take a look".
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