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| The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies |
| 2018-10-04 |
| Posted by:Elmerert Hupens2660 |
| #7 PLA probably operates in Taiwan and Singapore almost as easily as they do in China. Bring those jobs back to the United States. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2018-10-04 16:15 |
| #6 All the more reason to get chips and parts from Taiwan and Singapore. |
| Posted by: Boss Spoper5850 2018-10-04 15:23 |
| #5 Be much easier to sneak malicious code into the BIOS upgrade which i suspect is how this bit of hardware works (by subverting the BIOS, I'm guessing by a microcode update). |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2018-10-04 14:08 |
| #4 I'm actually surprised by the Chinese succeeding with this scheme. Mere automated hd visual inspection of the motherboards should have immediately detected any macroscopic part that was absent in the reference design. I would have assumed that such a trivial and basic check would be done on any individual MB or card that was to be used in a sensitive environment. Detecting malicious modifications within complicated graphics chips, SoCs, programmable massively parallel gfx chips or sealed multi-chip packages would be less trivial. |
| Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2018-10-04 14:02 |
| #3 Abu. Nails it!!! |
| Posted by: 3dc 2018-10-04 13:38 |
| #2 Incredible that our business and government leaders would have started doing business with China in the first place. Do they think they can inspect every single chip on every single motherboard that these tech companies import from China? Then they put these computers into our most sensitive business and government installations and wonder how the Chinese get wise to our secrets. If we ever get into a serious shooting war with China we will be at a serious disadvantage because they'll know what we're going to do before we do. China is run by a hostile, aggressive, totalitarian government so this kind of thing was to be expected by anybody who gave any rational thought to it. By importing Chinese computer hardware our business leaders and government have done untold harm to our country. They should all be put on trial for treason. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2018-10-04 12:41 |
| #1 Great story. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-10-04 12:18 |