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> Remember the 2018 accusations of spy chips implanted in supermicro motherboards that everyone denied so strongly It'd be easy to prove the existence of a per
by overfeed 7mo ago
> Remember the 2018 accusations of spy chips implanted in supermicro motherboards that everyone denied so strongly
It'd be easy to prove the existence of a pervasive "spy-chip" problem using a camera or a microscope. Unsurprisingly, neither Bloomberg nor it's quoted "experts" ever managed to do so, deapite loudly banging that drum.
- mlyle 7mo agoSpy chips could be just slightly different firmware for... any number of different things. It could be pretty stealthy, too.
- overfeed 7mo agoWhat you describe is a software Advanced Persistent Threat and not a "spy chip" as reported by Bloomberg. People have been reverse engineering firmware since forever, no any evidence of booby-trapped firmware was found or reported. Us splitting hairs is moot: the claims of subversion - whether by sw or hw - were unsubstantiated and uncorroborated, and remain so to date.