[freeflight]

So instead they leave backdoors in thousands of servers, affecting almost 30 U.S. companies, storing personal and private data on millions upon millions of people?

Even if the US military wants to keep them in place, as to "not to tip off the Chinese", I'm pretty certain those companies CISO's would not go along with that.

All it would take is just one guy with access to the hardware to leak a sample of this imaginary "Chinese super chip" to then make the story: "US military forces US tech companies to keep Chinese spy-chips in place", the blowback to that would extremely nasty and uncontrollable.

Sorry, but no matter how "The Big Hack" is spun, it remains a prime example of FUD [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty,_and_doubt

[acct1771]

98%+ of us have no authority to speak on what microcode is doing on 98%+ of chips out there.

Please do not speak generally and authoritively.

[freeflight]

On that basis, you shouldn't trust any chip on any piece of hardware out there, ever.

It's also not "me" speaking on authority, I'm merely going by what the actual authorities and responsible people are saying [0]. I mean, this was months ago, still no actual samples of that chip, still no CVE out about any of it.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/13/tech-g...

[acct1771]

I don't.

We don't, from what I've seen.

We've (the "community"?) have been trying to build/have built phones without baseband backdoors/hardware killswitches, chips without Intel Management Engine, etc.

Feel free to check out those threads if you've missed them.

This isn't about a specific case, by the way. This is the reality of the state of chip production.