On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 6:48 AM Douglas Eadline <deadl...@eadline.org> wrote: > https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies
I don't know, that Bloomberg piece seems to be lacking specific technical details to be really credible. There's quite a lot of skepticism being raised about those claims, and the Apple denial was pretty adamant. It sure seems all possible, but is it likely? To have dealt with my share of issues with those manufacturers' BMC firmwares, I'd tend to think they're quite busy making regular and documented functionality properly work, before they can add almost-invisible chips that can magically "alter the operating system’s core so it could accept modifications [and] also contact computers controlled by the attackers in search of further instructions and code". So I'm wondering how much of this is non-technical journalists just discovering what a BMC is. Not saying that it's not true, but the whole story seriously needs more technical details, other than what "former US intelligence officials" said. Cheers, -- Kilian _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
