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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: 2) by LoRdTAW on Thursday October 04 2018, @06:34PM
This is actually plausible. Both Amazon and Apple have denied their hardware was effected. Of course they could be lying to save face though we don't (and most likely will never know). Other speculation includes the affected hardware being removed in secret in cooperation with the US government.
One thing is for sure, were going back to the gool ol cold war days. But this time we aren't up against a crumbling nation, we're up against something a lot bigger and much worse. Enjoy!