[Beowulf] Hacked MBs It was only a matter of time

[Jonathan Engwall]

That is a tiny capacitor that sits on your motherboard with a very thin glue. You practically need a microscope to move one, and there are hundreds of them on each board. So which one is it? Maybe you can just scrape it off.
Buy there is another problem: OEM. That means an outside builder, Supermicro perhaps built your motherboard.
And, why tell this story 3 years later?
Buy in the subject of removing it, a capacitor reads a tiny stream of electricity and opens its hate at a determined voltage, correct? That sets off another capacitor and so on until what exactly happens?

On October 4, 2018, at 7:08 PM, John Hearns via Beowulf <beowulf at beowulf.org> wrote:

Thankyou to James Cuff for linking to The Register's article :
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/04/supermicro_bloomberg/
On Thu, 4 Oct 2018 at 20:52, Andrew Latham <lathama at gmail.com> wrote:
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> And news directly from Supermicro https://www.supermicro.com/newsroom/pressreleases/2018/press181004_Bloomberg.cfm
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> On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 8:48 AM Douglas Eadline <deadline at eadline.org> wrote:
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>> https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies
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>> (limited free articles)
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>> First question: So who has Supermicro motherboards?
>> Second question: Where else are these devices?
>> Third question: Who else is making/inserting these kind of devices?
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