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

[John Hearns]

Doug, you are Johnny English and I claim my five pounds.
https://youtu.be/-Qv6p6pTz5I

The plot is that all HEr Majestys agents have been compromised as they
use digital devices.
Johnny English (aka Doug Eadline) must be brought out of retirement
due to using only analogue.
The lovelt red Aston Martin belongs to Rowan Atkinson, ad is chosen as
it has no digital ignition or ECU.


On Fri, 5 Oct 2018 at 13:23, Douglas Eadline <deadline at eadline.org> wrote:
>
>
> From a technology standpoint, this is very interesting. For me
> the bigger picture is trusting complex things.  This is not new,
> in 1984 Ken Thompson brought up software "bugging"
>
> http://wiki.c2.com/?TheKenThompsonHack
>
> Funny, many of my non-geek friends
> are surprised at my skepticism and mistrust of
> many things digital.
>
> --
> Doug
>
>
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> > 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:
> >>
> >> And news directly from Supermicro
> >> https://www.supermicro.com/newsroom/pressreleases/2018/press181004_Bloomberg.cfm
> >>
> >> On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 8:48 AM Douglas Eadline <deadline at eadline.org>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies
> >>>
> >>> (limited free articles)
> >>>
> >>> 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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> >>> Doug
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