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The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies
Bloomberg
| October 4, 2018, 4:00 AM CDT
| Jordan Robertson and Michael Riley
Posted on 10/04/2018 11:21:15 AM PDT by Zhang Fei
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: amazon; apple; bloomberg; boycotts; california; china; diannefeinstein; maga; microchip; richardcblum; sanctions; sanfrancisco; tariffs; trade; trump
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Very, very impressive, and reminiscent of sophisticated US intelligence operations (including the Soviet pipeline sabotage of the 80's). Expect foreign electronics manufacturers to decamp en masse from their Chinese plants. Supermicro, the publicly-listed manufacturer at the center of this disaster, is being quoted at almost half the price it was yesterday. It will probably go bust.
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posted on
10/04/2018 11:21:15 AM PDT
by
Zhang Fei
To: Zhang Fei
To: Zhang Fei
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posted on
10/04/2018 11:23:48 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Zhang Fei
I read a novel like this about 10 years ago. Can't remember the title.
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posted on
10/04/2018 11:24:03 AM PDT
by
Right Wing Assault
(Kill-googl,TWITR,FACBK,NYT,WaPo,Hlywd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antifa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA)
To: Zhang Fei
The did this back in 2008, too. The Government had to pull thousands of hard drives from big-name US manufacturers because a controller chip — made in China — was phoning home with files stored on the drives.
Two domains were hard-wired into the chips, both .cn.
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posted on
10/04/2018 11:24:29 AM PDT
by
Steely Tom
([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
To: Zhang Fei
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posted on
10/04/2018 11:24:46 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Zhang Fei
I have never recommended a Super Micro kit to anyone for any reason. I am surprised to see so many top tier tech companies put their trust in 2nd tier server manufacturer. Doesn’t make sense.
Dell enough said.
To: Zhang Fei
If you have your stuff made in China you get a little extra
To: Zhang Fei
Sorry dumbasses. That is what you get for manufacturing your crap in China. Backdoor hardware....
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posted on
10/04/2018 11:25:55 AM PDT
by
fuente
(Liberty resides in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box--Fredrick Douglas)
To: Zhang Fei
What?! I'm shocked!! Shocked I say!!!
Who could have guessed that letting China manufacture our high tech could result in infiltration???
Every high tech company needs to report their exposure to Chinese manufacturing and the steps they have taken to confirm their products have not been hacked and remedial steps to prevent them from being hacked in the future.
I have just one word for tech companies offshoring to China....
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posted on
10/04/2018 11:27:04 AM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: Trump.Deplorable
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posted on
10/04/2018 11:27:21 AM PDT
by
Big Red Badger
(Despised by the Despicable!)
To: Right Wing Assault
“I read a novel like this about 10 years ago. Can’t remember the title.”
I did, too. I can’t remember the title, either. I think it was one of the Kindle books I read like eating M&Ms. The one I read had the premise that the Chicoms had put kill switches in millions of chips and simply sent the command to turn them all off.
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posted on
10/04/2018 11:32:47 AM PDT
by
suthener
(E)
To: Right Wing Assault
Tom Clancy did something similar in The Bear and the Dragon. Only it was a CIA agent planting a virus in a Chinese Politburo computer. (ironic.)
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posted on
10/04/2018 11:36:23 AM PDT
by
themidnightskulker
(And then the thread dies... peacefully, in it's sleep....)
To: Zhang Fei
Years ago I was looking at the Lenovo Thinkpad. As soon as I found out Lenovo was a Communist Chinese company, Thinkpad became a non-contender.
We are under constant attack by Communist China. No matter how friendly they seem, they are our sworn enemy.
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posted on
10/04/2018 11:36:58 AM PDT
by
DakotaGator
(Weep for the lost Republic! And keep your powder dry!!)
To: Zhang Fei
well at least we now know where the writers for “Silicon Valley” came up with “Pied Piper”, the color for their logo, and the story-line for their revolutionary compression algorithm ...
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posted on
10/04/2018 11:40:56 AM PDT
by
catnipman
((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
To: DakotaGator
The super gaming computer I just built has an MSI otherboard, AMD 8core cpu and a high end MSI gpu. Point is I was very careful buying trustworthy components.
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10/04/2018 11:42:52 AM PDT
by
bicyclerepair
(MAGA - DRAIN THE SWAMP ! - I love my online family of FReepers.)
To: DakotaGator
[Years ago I was looking at the Lenovo Thinkpad. As soon as I found out Lenovo was a Communist Chinese company, Thinkpad became a non-contender.
We are under constant attack by Communist China. No matter how friendly they seem, they are our sworn enemy.]
Wise decision. IBM hardware was overpriced, but it was rock solid. Lenovo got use of the IBM brand name for a few years as a condition of the purchase, and prices came down in line with its severely watered down quality, post-acquisition. Lenovo prices are decent, but I’ve never been tempted.
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posted on
10/04/2018 11:45:26 AM PDT
by
Zhang Fei
(They can have my pitbull when they pry his cold dead jaws off my ass.)
To: Zhang Fei
Any of you tech wizards know of a utility to sniff one’s pc for spy crap like this ?
Specifically for Asus mobos ?
Not like there’s anything on my machines the bastards would be after,
but it’s like craving a shower after seeing a pic of Hitlary, Carville, et al.
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posted on
10/04/2018 11:46:48 AM PDT
by
tomkat
To: Zhang Fei
Gee, it’s almost like “free trade” is a mistake.
And letting your supply chain be dependent on an enemy like China is unwise !
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posted on
10/04/2018 11:52:23 AM PDT
by
Reverend Wright
(I am a Putin bot. And I approve this message.)
To: Zhang Fei
With all that is going on, this is the most important story of the day, and it will reverberate for months, if not years.
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