is this real?
a botnet the size of a pencil tip.
Is this real?
Caleb Perez
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Isaac Thompson
It's irrelevant smoke and mirrors blaming the chinese for an architecture that the us intentionally made insecure. It doesn't matter whether it is real or fake.
Lincoln Brooks
Botnets dont need to have any physical size. Really, this entire “hack” could have been done with software only.
Anthony Rivera
!No¡
Sebastian Gutierrez
probably fake, just some rando words thrown around to make it look like something big while in reality every single device has chips with obscure functionalities that no one can access besides the manufacturer, ask intel how they update the micro code.
Bentley Morales
Jesus look at these replies. This thread is fucking glowing.
Hunter Ramirez
How is it the fault of the architecture? The design was modified before production to add a chip that modifies data as it goes in and out of RAM.
Brayden Walker
>the microchip altering the OS core
nice CSI Miami shit you got there bro
Christopher Jackson
the same governments that allowed a monopoly on cpu architectures so long as they were backdoored (intel ME, amd psp) left themselves vulnerable to coercion by disallowing independent secure manufacturers.
Andrew Watson
This hack has nothing to do with Intel ME or AMD PSP. This is adding a completely new hardware backdoor by modifying the board design.
Jayden Fisher
>networking, memory, and processor all in the size of an smd capacitor
doubt
Jason Nelson
It's within the realm of possibility. AFAIK it just sits on a bus, sniffing the traffic and injecting its payload when it detects the portion of code that it wants to modify is being loaded for execution.
Jackson Morales
doesn't seem that far-fetched, your entire reproductive system fits in the same space
Aaron Ramirez
haha penis is smol
Justin Brooks
upvoted fellow redditor
Parker Barnes
>(((bloomberg)))
Nathaniel Adams
Idiot.
Glowies would just blame it on China with or without evidences. Bad press for China is a good thing for them.
Hudson Hall
Matthew Smith
>alter the operating system's core
what did they mean by this
Justin Ramirez
>t. Brainlet
Jose Hall
In those small form factors you have very little GPIO pins to work with. Remember that they said these chips have network capabilities
Caleb Hill
America with its affirmative action coders and pajeets won't be able to compete with chinks in few decades.
Chase Clark
i think they mean to say they hacked into the mainframe with a backhand reverse white hat montblanc bruteforce simulation invention of high end gaming computer megakeygen and altered its core
Wyatt Evans
>network capabilities
If they're sending info straight to China, wouldn't it get detected during US' hardware testing and shit?
James King
>this thread
Shit, it's like I'm seeing the Chinese crossing the North Korean border all over again
Alexander Lee
It works by hijacking the glowies existing botnet.
Evan Morgan
The thing is it doesn't need to be super capable. You're not trying to smash Prime95, you're trying to get basic capabilities for compromising a system in there. It's not that far-fetched. Think about how much computer there is in a slice of your desktop's CPU that size.
Michael Rogers
read some of the threads about this on hackernews. this is possibly a valid attack vector. did this happen the way bloomberg is saying it happened... thats far more interesting.