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It is probable the latest editions of ESP32, Rockchip and other controllers manufactured in China do contain CCP exploits. Even the Intel-based mainboards from
by vaxman 2y ago
It is probable the latest editions of ESP32, Rockchip and other controllers manufactured in China do contain CCP exploits. Even the Intel-based mainboards from certain Chinese manufacturers also contain EFI with CCP exploits. (It's not about the chip or brand, it's about the CCP forcing this on China-based manufacturers.) Disclaimer: I've been downvoted over raising this in years past, but now it's a widely covered mainstream issue. I too like the idea of $2 multicore SoCs with integrated RF, but not devices that can potentially blow an on-dye fuse with a specific RF-delivered opcode sequence to enable "new functionality"..and for you technician types, there is a lot more to RF than BLE/WiFi/NFC and various HA protocols that some ESP officially support.)
I saw soon to retire Jensen announce a new SoC (https://www.reuters.com/technology/nvidia-ceo-says-mediatek-will-be-able-sell-nvidias-desktop-cpus-2025-01-07/ https://www.reuters.com/technology/nvidia-ceo-says-mediatek-...) at CES 2025 in partnership with Taiwan's Mediatek for their new DIGITS PC (just before NVIDIA stock tanked on the speech) and thought his fire is playing with fire, but this may be a solution to untrustable RockChip performance, Qualcomm profiteering and Apple proprietary solutions.
- be_erik 2y agoDo you have proof of these claims that you can link here on HN? While I’m not surprised, maybe you can provide proof of which brands are working with the CCP and the kinds of backdoors being installed?
- vaxman 2y agoALL CHINESE BRANDS ARE WORKING WITH THE CCP. It is literally required by Chinese law! You can be pointed towards the novel research work that explains how to self-modify the die in the field using opcode sequences that, by the way, came out literally at the dawn of the design timeframe for the latest generation of unnecessary ESP32 chips that flooded the market at the peak of the global chip shortage. The trigger mechanism is not novel. What's more, such n-th level stealth is not even really necessary to conceal backdoors because so many Chinese SoCs ship with reprogrammable microcode and heavily modified Linux distributions that are missing key components despite being marketed with open source trademarks like "OpenWRT". All of this Chinese-fabricated trash is going to be banned for import to US. Again, half of China, plus their industry and national proxies are out there downvoting away. When will the US learn?