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A major U.S. telecommunications company discovered manipulated hardware from Super Micro Computer Inc. in its network and removed it in August, fresh evidence of tampering in China of critical technology components bound for the U.S., according to a security expert working for the telecom company.
The security expert, Yossi Appleboum, provided documents, analysis and other evidence of the discovery following the publication of an investigative report in Bloomberg Businessweek that detailed how Chinas intelligence services had ordered subcontractors to plant malicious chips in Supermicro server motherboards over a two-year period ending in 2015.
Appleboum previously worked in the technology unit of the Israeli Army Intelligence Corps and is now co-chief executive officer of Sepio Systems in Gaithersburg, Maryland. His firm specializes in hardware security and was hired to scan several large data centers belonging to the telecommunications company. Bloomberg is not identifying the company due to Appleboums nondisclosure agreement with the client. Unusual communications from a Supermicro server and a subsequent physical inspection revealed an implant built into the servers Ethernet connector, a component that's used to attach network cables to the computer, Appleboum said.
The executive said he has seen similar manipulations of different vendors' computer hardware made by contractors in China, not just products from Supermicro. Supermicro is a victim -- so is everyone else, he said. Appleboum said his concern is that there are countless points in the supply chain in China where manipulations can be introduced, and deducing them can in many cases be impossible. That's the problem with the Chinese supply chain, he said.
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(2,437 posts)jmowreader
(50,562 posts)We're going to have to wait until we get a Democratic president to make this happen - the one we have is too compromised.
The government should construct a secure contract electronics assembly plant and a secure chip fab. Put them under control of the Army, rent out the space to manufacturers and allow them to bring in their own workers and components. Charge the same price as the Chinese do. There is a LOT of unused manufacturing space in Detroit to set the operation up in.
fescuerescue
(4,448 posts)Probably larger than Detroit.
Bringing all electronic manufacturing under one plant, under government control would one hell of a thing.
hunter
(38,322 posts)Now it's gone full circle and come back to bite us.
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saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)in a race to the bottom? Perhaps they are working together, playing the opportunity offered by a fool and our flawed electoral system?
gordianot
(15,242 posts)Just blow me up into nuclear ash than live out my days in collapse and chaos.