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Bloomberg Businessweek reports china put spy chip on VERY POPULAR after market motherboards in PC stores.
Posted by: pray for Linux ()
Date: October 07, 2018 08:52PM

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies


Bloomberg Businessweek blew open a can of worms on Thursday when it reported that Chinese intelligence agents had implanted tiny, disguised spy microchips, the size of a grain of rice, onto Super Micro motherboards which were used by 30 U.S. companies and government agencies.

THE CHIP ADDED BY CHINA WAS NOT IN THE 'ORIGINAL DESIGN' (though that too has Chinese foolery in it)


Super Micro are also popular with GAMERS.

SOLUTION: get a used apple for work, use your PC store PC/laptop ONLY for gaming and right up entertainment you don't mind if your spied on

If you wish to be "safe", insure your PC is "really all intel" (that means motherboard, cpu chip) and don't install any after market "cards" (with intel chips consumers don't "need" cards these days)

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Re: Bloomberg Businessweek reports china put spy chip on VERY POPULAR after market motherboards in PC stores.
Posted by: check every grid mm ()
Date: October 07, 2018 08:53PM

600x-1.jpg

inspect your electronics carefully for this or, well, use it for gaming until you fix it or buy an apple or something !

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Re: Bloomberg Businessweek reports china put spy chip on VERY POPULAR after market motherboards in PC stores.
Posted by: j44jb ()
Date: October 07, 2018 09:03PM

the deeper truth is the "big boys" (intel, amd, japan, nvidia, china) ALL HACK IN SILICON. they don't hack on disks anymore. and they take full advantage of it.

you never know what's in any of these chips. they are all big enough to contain any software (uploaded) to them - they are no longer limited to do only a few instructions: they offer ample space for big company hacking. infact they have refused to follow standards - many features come and go: taking software that relied on new features down in flames.

but really? few know what's really in a chip from any given country

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Re: Bloomberg Businessweek reports china put spy chip on VERY POPULAR after market motherboards in PC stores.
Posted by: y6jmfdssd ()
Date: October 09, 2018 03:39PM

little red riding hood

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Re: Bloomberg Businessweek reports china put spy chip on VERY POPULAR after market motherboards in PC stores.
Posted by: eyhfj ()
Date: October 09, 2018 03:44PM

the first time china did this is on an IBM contract to make keyboard chips in the 1980's

when IBM found out chinese left a "bug" that allowed access to computers that were password protected* to "access the motherboard", IBM did a news release to recall the keyboards

(manatory access control, mac, means nothing except physical tampering can undo the need for a password - today this is no longer true - which is BAD)

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Re: Bloomberg Businessweek reports china put spy chip on VERY POPULAR after market motherboards in PC stores.
Posted by: tvwfg ()
Date: November 27, 2018 03:42AM

tvwfg

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Re: Bloomberg Businessweek reports china put spy chip on VERY POPULAR after market motherboards in PC stores.
Posted by: mhnpe ()
Date: February 07, 2019 10:34AM

mhnpe

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Re: Bloomberg Businessweek reports china put spy chip on VERY POPULAR after market motherboards in PC stores.
Posted by: tgktn ()
Date: February 09, 2019 01:04PM

tgktn

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Re: Bloomberg Businessweek reports china put spy chip on VERY POPULAR after market motherboards in PC stores.
Posted by: irlksdfj ()
Date: August 10, 2019 12:52PM

so uh, why does microsoft and china so friends downloading my personal data all the time

easy to do bank fraud that way ?

easy to attempt real estate fraud that way ?

arrest some guy take his house if you have no other way to steal - accuse him of using his PC sinfully ?

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Re: Bloomberg Businessweek reports china put spy chip on VERY POPULAR after market motherboards in PC stores.
Posted by: irlksdfjirlksdfjirlksdfjirlksdfj ()
Date: August 10, 2019 01:05PM

It's really why you should run Ubuntu or Mint on your PC.

Free, open and 95% of the functionality of Windows without the 5% of the functionality that you don't want (reporting everything home to the mothership).

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Re: Bloomberg Businessweek reports china put spy chip on VERY POPULAR after market motherboards in PC stores.
Posted by: 098dfjk ()
Date: September 30, 2019 10:18PM

why did the universe change?

when the universed changed?

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Re: Bloomberg Businessweek reports china put spy chip on VERY POPULAR after market motherboards in PC stores.
Posted by: AlexHoole ()
Date: May 25, 2020 04:47AM

Very sad news actually, since I'm used to using products from aliexpress. My friend from the IT company advised me to use motherboards only from our manufacturer and shared a list where I found great motherboards for my computer (https://techcompact.com/best-motherboard-for-i9-9900k-gaming/). Be careful when choosing motherboard, as it affects the performance of your entire computer. Unfortunately, the information war continues and China has become our new enemy, hope it would all end sooner and everyone would live in peace and tranquility.

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