Posted on 10/04/2018 7:22:17 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The chips, which Bloomberg said have been the subject of a top secret U.S. government investigation starting in 2015, were used for gathering intellectual property and trade secrets from American companies and may have been introduced by a Chinese server company called Super Micro that assembled machines used in the centers.
Apple, AWS and Super Micro dispute the report. Apple said it did not find the chips as asserted by BusinessWeek — which cited anonymous government and corporate sources. Super Micro reportedly denied that it introduced the chips during the manufacturing.
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China has long been suspected — but rarely directly implicated — in en masse spy campaigns based on hardware made there. The majority of electronic components used in U.S. technology are manufactured in China. Companies including component manufacturers Huawei and ZTE, as well as surveillance camera maker Hikvision, have all fallen under intense suspicion and scrutiny from the U.S. government in the past year.
Intellectual property theft is one of the core arguments for tough trade restrictions on China by the Trump administration.
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You can cram a lot of code in a little chip.
Nope, Apple designs its own ARM CPUs and GPUs. It does have them fabbed in the Far East, similar to AMD's fabless business model.
‘I just read the emergency test yesterday was actually a test of these spy-chip infected systems.’
I’m willing to consider that.
“Apple designs its own ARM CPUs and GPUs.”
I imagine they can scan their code with tech similar to ‘word search’. But they can get really cozy with China sometimes. And who knows if key people were compromised?
But thank you for the information and input.
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Planting malware art on the chips themselves is very common and a huge problem for data and operational security.
Chips have become so complex and the circuit densities so high it's very difficult to detect the corrupt circuitry
Producing mission critical chips in places like China is a serious national security risk.
Imagine what the Brennan / CIA, and Comey/FBI might have learned about this, had they not spent all their time trying to overthrow Donald Trump?
That is one of the reasons for the large military budgets, chip replacement and that is probably why the new Beast was delayed for the last year 1 1/2
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It will be painful to the wallet but we need to stop sourcing all our electronic products through Chinese factories. They are not trustworthy players. If you want a cheap knock-off phone that may have spy chips in it, I’m sure you’ll still be able to get a Chinese phone. But if you want a phone or a PC that isn’t relaying everything to Beijing via Chinese made chips, we’d have to open some microelectronics plants that WE control and build them there. And that will add a lot of cost due to the fact that we don’t use slave labor. So be it.
You might be surprised. Modern CPU’s have a large amount of micro code.
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I didn't say they "build" them. I said they "design" them. That was in response to your statement:
Apple has no idea what is in their products. Like most everyone else, Samsung and other manufacturers build the technology components of their phones.Of course they know what's in their products, and Samsung in particular has nothing to do with the CPU or GPU.
Anybody believe that the Chinese government could insert a “chip” into an Iphone at the factory, and that Apple somehow missed that inside that tiny case in the QC process? That somehow the point on the assembly line where it was inserted, and the billion chips somehow escaped notice?
PT Barnum was right.
You do realize that chip engineering occurs at nano scale these days? And they’re 3-Dimensional structures? Hiding circuitry is not only possible, it has been occurring for years. They’re not building chips with soldering irons and magnifying glasses anymore.
PT Barnum isn’t even known to the current generation.
Update:
Some people speculated that the national alert was to test Chinese spy chips.
Confirmation:
Mystery disruption for cell networks after presidential alert text...
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/regions-cell-networks-disrupted-after-presidential-text-alert/
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And I suspect that our fleet massing off China’s coast is related to this as well as Pence’s speech yesterday. In fact, it could even be tied to taming North Korea.
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If anyone is interested, I’m starting up an electronic warfare ping unless someone else has something along those lines going.
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