Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am...
by jldugger on Thursday October 04, 2018 @07:39PM
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> It is becoming less credible to throw our hands up and say "China has all the silicon manufacturing, guess we have to put up with it!"
The thing is, China doesn't. Most expensive chips are fabricated outside of China in nearby countries and shipped there for final assembly.
What goes on in China is usually human assembly. And that's what seems to have happened here -- in the process of putting chips on motherboards, someone added some bonus chips. It seems like it would be hard to do that without dedicated traces / solder points.
Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am...
by diogenescynic on Thursday October 04, 2018 @08:12PM
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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am...
by nemo44x on Thursday October 04, 2018 @04:28PM
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How do you know that the DoD/CIA isn't behind this?
Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am...
by hart_russell on Thursday October 04, 2018 @04:46PM
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Because it came from Chinese manufacturers. Did you read the article?
Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am...
by nemo44x on Thursday October 04, 2018 @06:00PM
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Why does that matter at all? How do you know the CIA didn't use Chinese spies to do this? Although from a different agency, the motto "Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach" is telling.
Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am...
by ticviking on Thursday October 04, 2018 @05:24PM
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What evidence do you have to suggest that?
Saying "Well the Chinese companies are different" or "It's just rogue employees" or "We just have to accept it" is not good enough.
We need a little bit more economic nationalism and realize that this shit matters. How is it so shocking? How did a Canadian security firm find something before the CIA/DoD? How is this not a NatSec program to be inspecting this stuff through shell company orders and honeypots, like we have on the Internet?