bloomberg on supermicro: sky is falling

Thu Oct 4 17:41:57 UTC 2018

Would be remiss in our duties if we didn't also link AWS' blog, in response
to the Bloomberg article.

In short, AWS refutes many of Bloomberg's reporting in the article.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/setting-the-record-straight-on-bloomberg-businessweeks-erroneous-article/

Ken

On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 11:03 AM Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> wrote:

> re:
> https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies
>
> from a side convo with a well known sec researcher:
>
> >> saw that a couple of years back when apple tossed them out.  so who
> >> do we know that is for sure not poisoned.  and therein lies the rub.
> > Yup
>
> truth is, i am surprised they had to add a chip, and one of the larger
> dies was not already trojaned.
>
> have visions of the chinese implant on box A fighting with the american
> implant on box B with occasional jabs from the israelis from box C.
>
> what i would love to see/know is how apple tries to vet the macs made in
> shenzhen.
>
> randy
>
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