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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, Informative) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday October 05 2018, @01:02AM
Yep, every sane business that deals with boards has training regarding counterfeit parts (almost always ICs) and quarantine procedures. It's a pretty fuckhuge problem in the 'biz, and even you lowly Arduino users get bitten in the ass from counterfeit shit when that clone you buy with the counterfeit FTDI chip gets bricked during the FTDI driver install and now your Arduino (or anything else with an FTDI chip, such as USB to RS-232 or RS-485 adapters) is fucking worthless.