[Beowulf] Hacked MBs It was only a matter of time

[Douglas Eadline]

>From a technology standpoint, this is very interesting. For me
the bigger picture is trusting complex things.  This is not new,
in 1984 Ken Thompson brought up software "bugging"

http://wiki.c2.com/?TheKenThompsonHack

Funny, many of my non-geek friends
are surprised at my skepticism and mistrust of
many things digital.

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Doug



> That is a tiny capacitor that sits on your motherboard with a very thin
> glue. You practically need a microscope to move one, and there are
> hundreds of them on each board. So which one is it? Maybe you can just
> scrape it off.
> Buy there is another problem: OEM. That means an outside builder,
> Supermicro perhaps built your motherboard.
> And, why tell this story 3 years later?
> Buy in the subject of removing it, a capacitor reads a tiny stream of
> electricity and opens its hate at a determined voltage, correct? That sets
> off another capacitor and so on until what exactly happens?
>
> On October 4, 2018, at 7:08 PM, John Hearns via Beowulf
> <beowulf at beowulf.org> wrote:
>
> Thankyou to James Cuff for linking to The Register's article :
> https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/04/supermicro_bloomberg/
> On Thu, 4 Oct 2018 at 20:52, Andrew Latham <lathama at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> And news directly from Supermicro
>> https://www.supermicro.com/newsroom/pressreleases/2018/press181004_Bloomberg.cfm
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 8:48 AM Douglas Eadline <deadline at eadline.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies
>>>
>>> (limited free articles)
>>>
>>> First question: So who has Supermicro motherboards?
>>> Second question: Where else are these devices?
>>> Third question: Who else is making/inserting these kind of devices?
>>>
>>>
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