Re:What Businessweek got wrong about Apple
by jnbiche on Friday October 05, 2018 @12:27PM
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> That is a good question, did the Chinese target specific customers, identifying the relevant sub-contractors and modify these boards?
Why not go read the story? It addresses this question and many others HNers are asking now. It's actually a fairly detailed story, although annoyingly short on technical detail (which could have been because their sources refused to go into much detail).
Re:What Businessweek got wrong about Apple
by hef19898 on Friday October 05, 2018 @02:52PM
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I did read it, so if it was mentioned I missed the part where Bloomberg stated if it was targeted at specific orders and thus customers or if it was seeded into the supply chain to see what sticks.
So, if you know the answer, why not just providing the information? ;-)
Or are these boards commercial-of-the-shelf things that are mass produced?
In the latter case these boards can just end up anywhere, in the first case not so much. As a result using commodity boards would provide some degree of protection against such an attack as slipping a manipulated one into a specific target's servers would be a game of chance. Also the risk that the attack is discovered would be much higher.