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Re:Making sense of the alleged Supermicro motherboard attack by coolspot on Friday October 05, 2018 @12:46PM (#18149606)
Especially if you:

1) happen to be country that makes all electronics

2) Company with a lot of ties to your country is happen to be top server supplier

3) Companies that use these servers happen to work for DoD, CIA and all major points of interest.

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Re:Making sense of the alleged Supermicro motherboard attack by aswanson on Friday October 05, 2018 @01:54PM (#18150197)
I wonder if China is making all these cheap wifi chips (esp8266, esp32) etc as backdoors into US infrastructure.
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Re:Making sense of the alleged Supermicro motherboard attack by baq on Friday October 05, 2018 @02:05PM (#18150306)
No more Chinese phones for me either way. It's enough that Google knows everything about me, PLA doesn't have to.
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Re:Making sense of the alleged Supermicro motherboard attack by conceptme on Friday October 05, 2018 @02:58PM (#18150769)
What phones do not have Chinese components?
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Re:Making sense of the alleged Supermicro motherboard attack by e12e on Friday October 05, 2018 @03:14PM (#18150928)
Not only that, which base stations don't have Chinese components?

But cpu, baseband, ram etc is certainly more serious consideration... And I don't see how you can get around that. Unless you plan to build a dumb phone around a Motorola 68k or something?

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Re:Making sense of the alleged Supermicro motherboard attack by LinuxBender on Friday October 05, 2018 @05:18PM (#18151815)
Ericsson for one.
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Re:Making sense of the alleged Supermicro motherboard attack by est on Saturday October 06, 2018 @11:23AM (#18155574)
Ericsson do most of their QA work in China at least.
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Re:Making sense of the alleged Supermicro motherboard attack by e12e on Saturday October 06, 2018 @03:52AM (#18154071)
Without components from China? Today?
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Re:Making sense of the alleged Supermicro motherboard attack by avip on Friday October 05, 2018 @03:50PM (#18151157)
And how could you use esp chips as "backdoors"? Maybe espressif made them because they thought there is a good market for low-cost SoC with good network stack?
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Re:Making sense of the alleged Supermicro motherboard attack by aswanson on Friday October 05, 2018 @04:47PM (#18151613)
I hope that is the case; the pessimist in me says the price/performance is too good to be true.
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Re:Making sense of the alleged Supermicro motherboard attack by eeZah7Ux on Friday October 05, 2018 @03:51PM (#18151164)
I hope esp8266 & so are not relevant enough to have a sofisticated backdoor built in.
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Re:Making sense of the alleged Supermicro motherboard attack by hathawsh on Friday October 05, 2018 @04:22PM (#18151407)
It seems likely that the esp8266 chip family is being used in industrial automation. It's a very powerful yet cheap chip, making it practically ideal for adding covert spyware. I love it, yet it scares me. It's a little too amazing.
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