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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by baq on Thursday October 04, 2018 @06:52AM (#18138729)
can you be sure that fabs haven't been infiltrated and masks changed between design and production in any factory, be it tsmc, samsung, glofo or intel?
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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by paulie_a on Thursday October 04, 2018 @02:10PM (#18142192)
The US did that in the late 70's or early 80's to the USSR and it resulted in one of the largest non nuclear explosions in history.
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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by aaaaaaaaaab on Thursday October 04, 2018 @08:41PM (#18144824)
* allegedly

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_Abyss

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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by TheSpiceIsLife on Thursday October 04, 2018 @07:15AM (#18138847)
Presumably the organisations responsible for hard coding backdoors in chip designs know how to test to confirm their presence.

Presumably some adversarial nation-states have moles inside these organisations > know how to remove them prior to fab.

Presumably these adversaries export genuine chips to their adversaries, thereby tricking them in to thinking the backdoors made it through the fab process, and only use chips that have the backdoors removed in their own critical infrastructure.

Presumably.

I’ve always had this fantasy of being a hextuple agent involved in this type of deep espionage.

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