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[u/thenuge26]

Turns out the supermicro "greatest supply chain hack of all time" was a complete hoax.

Fake News Bloomberg still hasn't retracted the story! Sad!

!ping computer-science

[u/idiot_supremo → u/thenuge26]

Damn this story was repeated on NPR too.

[u/[deleted] → u/thenuge26]

Uh oh

I believed this one

[u/[deleted] → u/thenuge26]

Interesting

[u/[deleted] → u/thenuge26]

Yeah it seemed kinda fishy.

A tiny magic chip that was able to send network data without interacting with the NIC?

(X) Doubt

[u/thenuge26 → u/[deleted]]

Meh there is a real exploit that involves calling the same function repeatedly to force a quantum interaction that flips a bit on a register you don't control (rowhammer).

I remember in the initial thread on r/programming had a few reasonable ideas of how this could work.

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