The Chinese military surreptitiously inserted tiny microchips no larger than single grains of rice into servers on local assembly lines in order to gain access to data networks run by U.S. government agencies ranging from the Department of Defense to the Central Intelligence Agency, according to an explosive investigation from Bloomberg.
* A three-year investigation by U.S. government officials found that servers assembled for startup Elemental Technologies by San Jose-based company Supermicro reportedly contained tiny microchips “inserted at factories run by manufacturing subcontractors in China,” Bloomberg reported.
* The chips, independently discovered by engineers at Amazon and Apple in 2015, purportedly allowed hackers to “create a stealth doorway into any network that included the altered machines,” per Bloomberg, a Trojan horse that gave hackers a direct line into any sensitive network.
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Update: China's Military Reportedly Snuck Spy Chips Onto Hardware Used by U.S. Warships, Drones and Apple (Fortune)
WNU Editor: There are going to be consequences from this .... primarily the shutting out/prohibition of Chinese chips and server motherboards in the U.S. and in other countries.
4 comments:
Yep, can't trust them. However, there is no excuse as these boards were not tested nor validated properly. Cheap is not always the best answer.
Chinese spy chips would be a ‘god-mode’ hack, experts say
" Michael Feldhake said...
Yep, can't trust them. However, there is no excuse as these boards were not tested nor validated properly. Cheap is not always the best answer.
October 4, 2018 at 3:51 PM "
This was brought to us by the same greedy scum that sold duel use multi-payload rocket tech to China for cheaper corporate satellite launches and it was turned into nuke tipped MIRV rockets pointed at the USA.
All the f--ks involved in these decisions in Washington DC should be swinging from trees.
"This was brought to us by the same greedy scum that sold duel use multi-payload rocket tech to China for cheaper corporate satellite launches and it was turned into nuke tipped MIRV rockets pointed at the USA."
Bill Clinton is a traitor.
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