The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Amazon and Apple

Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by RL_Quine on Thursday October 04, 2018 @07:02AM (#18138777)

Get an x-ray machine? They are surprisingly cheap pieces of hardware if you are willing to deal with a small area, low penetration image. Low penetration means no lead, which makes for something that's about as cumbersome as a large bar fridge.

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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by tuanva on Thursday October 04, 2018 @07:13AM (#18138837)

It's mentioned in the article that X-Ray didn't help much: 'Gray or off-white in color, they looked more like signal conditioning couplers, another common motherboard component, than microchips, and so they were unlikely to be detectable without specialized equipment'

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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 @07:15AM (#18138844)

This comment is specific to the parent talking about their experiences producing credit card terminals that ended up with PCBs implanted in them. Here it is appropriate.

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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by ksec on Thursday October 04, 2018 @07:43AM (#18138979)

And as soon as they know you are using X-Ray to test ( I would be surprised if there were no insider information leaking on the OP's end ), they would develop a way so that somehow the X-Ray images looks identical. May be a heat spreader like metal as cover up.

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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by PascLeRasc on Thursday October 04, 2018 @11:18AM (#18140663)

Can't the image be diffed with one of a trusted system?

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