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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by datavirtue on Thursday October 04, 2018 @09:10AM (#18139533)
And none of those measures would have protected against the compromise detailed in the article.
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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by close04 on Thursday October 04, 2018 @09:50AM (#18139846)
Sure, we were discussing someone saying their devices came with extra PCBs inside (it's a bit hard to follow but scroll up to the original comment, currently first on the page).

> We would be getting products from China with added boards to beam credit card information.

>> Trying to guess the contents of a box that you cannot open sounds a bit like madness.

>>> Use X-ray? or whatever can penetrate the exterior shell

2 different types of attacks, 2 different types of responses.

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