On 2012-05-28 19:28, Cal. wrote:
Questo è un problema...
Fuck that's a real big problem i was just waiting from long time !!!
Era nella pensiero collettivo che fosse possibile una cosa del genere
e ora e' saltata fuori.
Alv.
Sent to you by Cal. via Google Reader: Backdoor Found In China-Made
US
Military Chip? via Slashdot by samzenpus on 5/28/12
Hugh Pickens writes "Information Age reports that the Cambridge
University researchers have discovered that a microprocessor used by
the US military but made in China contains secret remote access
capability, a secret 'backdoor' that means it can be shut off or
reprogrammed without the user knowing. The 'bug' is in the actual
chip
itself, rather than the firmware installed on the devices that use
it.
This means there is no way to fix it than to replace the chip
altogether. 'The discovery of a backdoor in a military grade chip
raises some serious questions about hardware assurance in the
semiconductor industry,' writes Cambridge University researcher
Sergei
Skorobogatov. 'It also raises some searching questions about the
integrity of manufacturers making claims about [the] security of
their
products without independent testing.' The unnamed chip, which the
researchers claim is widely used in military and industrial
applications, is 'wide open to intellectual property theft, fraud and
reverse engineering of the design to allow the introduction of a
backdoor or Trojan', Does this mean that the Chinese have control of
our military information infrastructure asks Rupert Goodwins? 'No: it
means that one particular chip has an undocumented feature. An
unfortunate feature, to be sure, to find in a secure system — but
secret ways in have been built into security systems for as long as
such systems have existed.'" Even though this story has been
blowing-up
on Twitter, there are a few caveats. The backdoor doesn't seem to
have
been confirmed by anyone else, Skorobogatov is a little short on
details, and he is trying to sell the scanning technology used to
uncover the vulnerability.
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