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> It's likely the TA knows of specific flaws reported to NXP that can be leveraged to exploit devices the chips are embedded in, and that's assuming they didn't
by autoexec 3y ago
> It's likely the TA knows of specific flaws reported to NXP that can be leveraged to exploit devices the chips are embedded in, and that's assuming they didn't implement backdoors themselves. Over 2.5 years (at least), that's not unrealistic.”
I assume these chips had backdoors long before Chinese hackers started collecting files and saving them to dropbox. Pretty convenient to be able to blame Chinese hackers for any backdoors that come to light now.
- bell-cot 3y agoConvenient how, for who? "Our products only have backdoors because China added those to our woulda-been-secure-if-they-hadn't designs..." That does not sound like a winning sales pitch to me.
- jlarocco 3y agoPresumably convenient for the group who really added the backdoors.
- bell-cot 3y agoUnless that group is both (1) caught, and (2) threatened with serious punishment for adding backdoors, I see no convenience. Any uncaught or beyond-reach-of-the-law group would want to take credit for their own work.
- GartzenDeHaes 3y agoThe implication is that it's a nation state, and not one of the "bad guys".
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