To: central_va; Swordmaker
2 posted on
10/17/2019 2:37:27 PM PDT by
Zhang Fei
(My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
To: Zhang Fei
The chip will still stand out like a sore thumb in QUALITY ASSURANCE REVIEW of the product.
Just because this guy can add it to the board does NOT mean the $2 chip can do a damn thing! Being able to place a chip on the motherboard and doing it so it cannot be found are two entirely different things. A video QA scan of that hacked board, something every manufacturer does, would red flag that board immediately. I could spot it with my bare eye as something not designed to be on the board even if they had not put a red circle around it.
12 posted on
10/17/2019 5:33:51 PM PDT by
Swordmaker
(My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot!)
To: Zhang Fei
Keep in mind the Bloomberg article last year was a hoax from a single source who was flogging his companys hardware/software products designed to supposedly find surreptitiously placed chips on logicboards. . . his company was desperately trying to create a need for their product. No one in the industry, after examining thousands of the accused logic boards and servers even found a single example of a compromised board with a spurious chip on it. Not one.
In this case, we are talking about a seven year old, obsolete, double sided board that has long been replaced by an IC which handles its functions. . . who is going to open up the IC and stick this bulky chip inside it in a modern system?
Hell, we were adding chips with additional function to Commodore 64 motherboards back in the early 1980s using this same technique, just a bit sloppier. This is nothing new or revolutionary!
15 posted on
10/17/2019 5:50:36 PM PDT by
Swordmaker
(My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot!)
To: Zhang Fei
16 posted on
10/17/2019 5:50:41 PM PDT by
keving
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