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.

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?

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

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

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 ;)