The response is equally interesting. I wouldn't have assumed people would be so ...

Alex3917 · on Oct 6, 2018

> I wouldn't have assumed people would be so quick to jump to "Well, private US companies are lying to the public because the US government is compelling them to."

I mean ask Joe Nacchio how going up against the NSA worked out.

RL_Quine · on Oct 6, 2018

The reason for that response is:

* this all seems within reason, knowing the hardware

* the denials are unusually strong

If any of it is true or not I don't know, but the IPMI stuff is crappy, if not backdoored.

eksemplar · on Oct 6, 2018

Are they unusually strong? I work in government, we take these allegations really serious. The data we house in the cloud simply can’t be compromised.

We’re apparently home free by using Azure, but I think the responses are justified if the story is fake.

dboreham · on Oct 6, 2018

Since everyone assumed IPMI was crappy and potentially backdoored, that's why the story seems fishy. Why go to science fiction lengths to subvert some easily subervertable thing?

jarfil · on Oct 6, 2018

The described hack is nowhere near science fiction levels. Even embedding a bare silicon chip in the layers of a board would be factible.

RL_Quine · on Oct 6, 2018

As I referred to in the original thread, this is a commonplace construction method.

dboreham · on Oct 6, 2018

I suppose I meant "presented as science fiction". I formerly worked as a hardware design engineer so I'm pretty familiar with what's actually science fiction ;)