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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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