Remember when a certain other security researcher was convinced his Ethernet jacks had implants? Remember all this "evidence"? How *we* knew it was BS? Now consider whether Bloomberg's technically clueless journalists would know it's BS.
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Seriously, this is just pathetic now. They just went from "1 year and multiple sources" to "<5 days and one guy". This is just negligence. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-09/new-evidence-of-hacked-supermicro-hardware-found-in-u-s-telecom …
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Why is it that every time something like this happens nobody has any hard documentation or analysis results? Ah yes, the best cop-out. "We don't have it any more, we can't give you more details".pic.twitter.com/EooD0aIVyR
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So now we have *software* detecting *analog* stuff like the "power consumption" of a *network*. None of those words go together. At all.pic.twitter.com/h0W0R8cI7L
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Basically every Ethernet jack I've seen in anything but cheapo consumer routers/switches has been metal. How the hell is this an IOC?pic.twitter.com/1LG7tBe9MW
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Nevermind that... Ethernet jacks don't have power pins. Where is this module (that uses so much power that it gets hot) magically powering itself from? Nobody runs PoE out to servers. Did they modify the board design to add power pins too?
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Replying to @marcan42
Minor nit: power is available for the jack itself since it typically has two LEDs. So if you modified a jack previous to board mounting, you have power. Not enough to need heat dissipation, but enough to run a small chip.
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Not a small chip able to MITM 1000BASE-T. You aren't going to get more than 60mW from an LED.
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Just a single 100BASE-TX PHY is twice that, a 1000BASE-T one is like 500mW.
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https://goo.gl/images/sZFb7x Notice the LED pins are totally independent.
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Yes, I know how Ethernet jacks work. They're LEDs, not halogen bulbs. You can't pull more than 60mW tops from each of those pairs of pins (while the LED is on), potentially much less depending on the design.
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