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Chinese spy chips are found in hardware used by Apple, Amazon, Bloomberg says; Apple, AWS say no way
The chips, which Bloomberg said have been the subject of a top secret U.S. government investigation starting in 2015, were used for gathering intellectual property and trade secrets from American companies and may have been introduced by a Chinese server company called Super Micro that assembled machines used in the centers.
[...] China has long been suspected — but rarely directly implicated — in en masse spy campaigns based on hardware made there. The majority of electronic components used in U.S. technology are manufactured in China. Companies including component manufacturers Huawei and ZTE, as well as surveillance camera maker Hikvision, have all fallen under intense suspicion and scrutiny from the U.S. government in the past year.
I'd think that the big guys would be designing their own boards. Maybe we should only buy PCBs from South Korea.
Also at Bloomberg and The Guardian.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 04 2018, @03:20PM (2 children)
Apple knew there was an issue with SuperMicro servers back in 2016 and removed SuperMicro servers [soylentnews.org] from their data centers.
I doubt other data center operators ignored Apple's actions, so they all probably knew something was amiss.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by ikanreed on Thursday October 04 2018, @04:08PM (1 child)
Yes, multiple companies purged this hardware while doing nothing to alert the public.
Probably at the behest of our intelligence apparati that have never seen information they thought the public should be aware of.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday October 04 2018, @05:20PM
At the same time, there was hysteria about Huawei equipment being bugged...