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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by BurningFrog on Thursday October 04, 2018 @12:08PM (#18141147)
This is also such a good anonymous story that I'd give decent odds it's made up.
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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by hyperpape on Thursday October 04, 2018 @12:22PM (#18141297)
He's not anonymous, though.
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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by repolfx on Thursday October 04, 2018 @12:30PM (#18141361)
I've heard very similar stories from people in the card industry before. I don't think it's made up, unfortunately. Card readers from China are systematically untrustworthy.
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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by polynomial on Thursday October 04, 2018 @02:46PM (#18142463)
The fact that they didn't just run the units through an xray machine would seem to support your theory.
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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by retrogradeorbit on Thursday October 04, 2018 @12:33PM (#18141384)
Using the technically incorrect term "angular momentum" rather than the more correct term "moment of inertia" made me think the same thing. I would think a person tasked with building such a device would know their physics well enough to use the right term, but I may be wrong.
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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by turtlecloud on Thursday October 04, 2018 @01:09PM (#18141696)
Maybe he is afraid of giving too much info away. By mentioning it, now the opposing side will be measuring angular momentum.

So now he needs to make a new test. Ow that that is out of the bag

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