[Zhang Fei]

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[Swordmaker]

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.

[Swordmaker]

Keep in mind the Bloomberg article last year was a hoax from a single source who was flogging his company’s 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In this case, we are talking about a seven year old, obsolete, double sided board that has long been replaced by an IC which handles its functions.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!

[keving]

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