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Re: Supermicro server motherboards with hardware backdoor?

From Philipp Klaus Krause@pkk@spth.de to sci.electronics.design,comp.arch.embedded on Fri Oct 12 08:21:40 2018

From Newsgroup: comp.arch.embedded

Am 05.10.2018 um 01:29 schrieb Clifford Heath:

Whether it turns out to be true or not, this will be the biggest
security blockbuster of the decade.

<https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies>

Clifford Heath

While er don't know enough that much this case, the idea of implanting backdoors in hardware to be shipped to other countries is not new. The
NSA has been doing so for a long time (as we know from Snowden since 2014):

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/12/glenn-greenwald-nsa-tampers-us-internet-routers-snowden

Philipp
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