Posted on 10/05/2018 10:48:15 AM PDT by bitt
Bloomberg reported this week that the Chinese government planted tiny chips in Super Micro servers to spy on Amazon, Apple and tens of other important organizations in the United States.
The spy chips allegedly made it into devices made by California-based Super Micro after Chinese agents masquerading as government or Super Micro employees pressured or bribed managers at the Chinese factories where the motherboards are built.
Once the chips were planted, they would reportedly allow attackers to remotely access the compromised devices. According to Bloomberg, the operation was conducted by the Chinese military and it targeted over 30 organizations, including government agencies and tech giants. Amazon, Apple and Super Micro have all denied the allegations.
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Built a dual Pentium III computer once based on a Super Micro motherboard. Really quality stuff, I hope this doesn’t hurt the company...
Can someone check the chip?
Has the chip(s) been reverse engineered yet?
Wonder if them soros voting machines came equipped with the Chinese chips.
some precincts HAVE to revert to paper ballots.!
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