Yossi Appleboum on How Bloomberg is Positioning His Research Against Supermicro

Re:Yossi Appleboum on How Bloomberg is Positioning His Resea... by Animats on Thursday October 11, 2018 @01:20AM (#18191111)

Where's the board? The original Bloomberg story showed pictures of a motherboard. Supermicro motherboards are not rare. Why hasn't one with this strange 6-pin chip surfaced?

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Re:Yossi Appleboum on How Bloomberg is Positioning His Resea... by SyneRyder on Thursday October 11, 2018 @02:33AM (#18191355)

Those were never pictures of the board or the chip. The images are credited to an illustrator. The report itself never mentioned 6-pin. And if you listen to the Risky Business podcast, the chip image is actually a signal coupler sold via Mouser Electronics, that Joe Fitzpatrick sent the journalists a link to when they asked him "what does a signal amplifier or coupler look like".

https://risky.biz/RB517_feature/

https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/10/08/security-research...

Actually, you can check for yourself. It's the first photo result at Mouser if you search for "signal coupler". Seems everyone has been running around trying to find a TDK HHM22137A2 on their Super Micro boards:

https://au.mouser.com/_/?Keyword=signal+coupler

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Re:Yossi Appleboum on How Bloomberg is Positioning His Resea... by codezero on Thursday October 11, 2018 @02:14AM (#18191291)

This is what I’ve been wondering all along.

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