India bans PUBG, Baidu and more than 100 apps linked to China

Re:India bans PUBG, Baidu and more than 100 apps linked to C... by sova on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @01:24PM (#24355493)

Okay, source code, then what about chip schematics and everything on the hardware layer you can't audit for?

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Re:India bans PUBG, Baidu and more than 100 apps linked to C... by badrabbit on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @01:43PM (#24355718)

Also, auto updates! They ship good code but selectively deploy backdoored updates sometimes

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Re:India bans PUBG, Baidu and more than 100 apps linked to C... by qppo on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @06:38PM (#24359015)

How do you verify the chip on a schematic is the chip on the device you purchase?

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Re:India bans PUBG, Baidu and more than 100 apps linked to C... by phre4k on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @07:04PM (#24359232)

X-ray it.

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Re:India bans PUBG, Baidu and more than 100 apps linked to C... by metta2uall on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @07:29PM (#24359388)

From my very basic understanding X-ray doesn't reveal silicon doping layers

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Re:India bans PUBG, Baidu and more than 100 apps linked to C... by orbifold on Thursday September 03, 2020 @05:02AM (#24362126)

Put it under an electron microscope then. That combined with carefully removing metal layer by layer should do the trick.

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Re:India bans PUBG, Baidu and more than 100 apps linked to C... by nextaccountic on Thursday September 03, 2020 @12:40AM (#24360845)

I'd like schematics for US ships as well. Specially NVidia.

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Re:India bans PUBG, Baidu and more than 100 apps linked to C... by chillacy on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @07:43PM (#24359471)

Firmware presents an extra challenge too, seeing as how you basically can't see what was flashed, and most toolchains are proprietary.

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