Please don’t go all BadBIOS on us… there are pins in interesting places all over motherboards of many different manufacturers. You can build a complete conspiracy theory on the implications of a JTAG port.
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Yeah, fun challenge: identify all the regions on a board that a trillion dollar secret spy program would not be able compromise if they modified it. Are there any? Just claiming "it was in that area" proves nothing, it's *really* hard to pick an area where it's not possible.
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I dunno. Are there that many regions that you could reliably compromise the entire board’s operation with a tiny, inexpensive device that covers only, say, two wires?
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Given the number of sources on this story, we’re down to three possibilities: 1. Bloomberg perpetrates massive journalistic fraud, 2. US IC perpetrates massive fraud/conspiracy, 3. It’s true. I think answering hardware questions help to evaluate whether it’s (1).
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Or, 4), there is a desperate need for news to discredit China?
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No, there are also financial interests by shorters. If you want to make big money you short ZTC and Lenovo, claim China is spying using SuperMicro as a useful victim (“Apple stopped using them: why? why?”) and reap the benefits. Bloomberg is a financial news company…
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Bloomberg claims to have three senior Apple employees on record confirming this.
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Confirming they heard the rumour? Confirming it's technically feasible? I'll confirm those things as well, doesn't mean it happened.
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Replying to @taviso @matthew_d_green and
I can confirm both rumour and the technical feasibility. While I’m at it I am happy to confirm rumours of an SSH backdoor going back to 2001 at least.
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