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I like how you have people waxing poetic about "consumer" equipment while probably having supermicro devices in a rack with a direct line to Beijing. Also, the
by boringuser2 3y ago
I like how you have people waxing poetic about "consumer" equipment while probably having supermicro devices in a rack with a direct line to Beijing.
Also, the mainland binaries are usually the ones with the backdoor.
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- vore 3y agoThis is just total FUD: https://hackaday.com/2019/05/14/what-happened-with-supermicro/ https://hackaday.com/2019/05/14/what-happened-with-supermicr... If you're going to make these claims, back them up.
- boringuser2 3y agoImagine thinking that actual people are emotionally invested in a brand. You don't use devices that reputable sources have directly indicated as having backdoors in a secure environment. Period.
- solarkraft 3y agoI'd like to see the reputable source. It surely can't be Bloomberg, which has provided no evidence.
- CTDOCodebases 3y agoThere are a multitude of ways that the boards they received could have been tampered with or even switched out and replaced with exact replicas without Supermicros knowledge or assistance. As it says in the audit that Supermicro themselves performed "A representative sample of our motherboards were tested..." which basically means nothing since they didn't examine the boards in question. Lest we forget[0]. I doubt the NSA are the only ones engaging in this type of behaviour. So as the Bitcoin people like to say "don't trust verify". [0] - https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/03/cisco_shipping_.html https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/03/cisco_shippin...