Re: [PLUG] The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies

["Lee H. Marzke" <lee@marzke.net>]

The chip just opened a hole to the baseband controller to allow remote servers in
to analyze and exploit the system further.  It was a very limited function (and tiny)
chip,  some reports of it being hidden between layers on the multi-layer system board.

Lee

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Litt" <slitt@troubleshooters.com>
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> Subject: Re: [PLUG] The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies

> On Thu, 4 Oct 2018 14:15:47 -0400
> "K.S. Bhaskar" <ksbhaskar@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Because of the wide variety of operating systems (even wide variety of
>> Windows flavors), it would be pretty hard for such a chip to reliably
>> make changes.
> 
> OK, it's pretty hard. But even if it were extremely hard, the
> Chinese government is funding it at a high priority. I'd say putting a
> man on the moon and building the first fission and fusion bombs were
> extremely hard, but they were funded at a priority.
> 
> SteveT
> 
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Lee Marzke, lee@marzke.net http://marzke.net/lee/ 
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