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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by codedokode on Thursday October 04, 2018 @05:59AM (#18138488)
Cannot it be physically disabled with a jumper or maybe by cutting some lines on the motherboard?
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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by RL_Quine on Thursday October 04, 2018 @06:05AM (#18138517)
No. SuperMicro make some models which appear to be for government application which lack the ASIC completely, they were available on NewEgg with no further description of purpose at one point.

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