So, what was all the hub bub about a Chinese backdoor in chips in US military hardware?
Stop…breathe into the paper bag.
READ THIS.
From Errata Security:
Today’s big news is that researchers have found proof of Chinese manufacturers putting backdoors in American chips that the military uses. This is false. While they did find a backdoor in a popular FPGA chip, there is no evidence the Chinese put it there, or even that it was intentionally malicious.
Backdoors are common, but rarely malicious
Backdoors are a common problem in software. About 20% of home routers have a backdoor in them, and 50% of industrial control computers have a backdoor. The cause of these backdoors isn’t malicious, but a byproduct of software complexity.
Read on.
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