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Re:The Die Is Cast: Hardware Security Is Not Assured by henryfjordan on Friday November 06, 2020 @07:16PM (#25012324)
For a secret chip in a server to be useful, it needs to emit a signal, send data over the network, or be manually retrieved. If that were happening at any scale, someone would notice (especially in a data center).

If secret chips were going to be used, they'd be very targeted in nature (like a fake Comcast modem that they give to a specific target) rather than something general.

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Re:The Die Is Cast: Hardware Security Is Not Assured by rmrfstar on Friday November 06, 2020 @07:32PM (#25012391)
I wouldn't be so confident. If you have something running in the BMC, you can do literally anything.

In this case "anything" might mean transmitting a single bit of information that "this is an interesting box, come take a look".

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