:shrug:
good or bad
and China's Mysterious MicroChip
https://www.dailywire.com/news/37297/van-voorhis-amazons-potential-10b-pentagon-peter-van-voorhis
During due diligence testing, Amazon “found a tiny microchip, not much bigger than a grain of rice, that wasn’t part of the boards’ original design. Amazon reported the discovery to U.S. authorities, sending a shudder through the intelligence community. Elemental’s servers could be found in Department of Defense data centers, the CIA’s drone operations, and the onboard networks of Navy warships. During the ensuing top-secret probe, which remains open more than three years later, investigators determined that the chips allowed the attackers to create a stealth doorway into any network that included the altered machines. Multiple people familiar with the matter say investigators found that the chips had been inserted at factories run by manufacturing subcontractors in China.”
If Bezos receives the $10B contract to handle the Department of Defense’s cloud computing, we run the risk of the Chinese government gaining access to top-secret U.S. military data. After receiving word of security breaches at other companies, “Amazon’s security team conducted its own investigation into AWS’s Beijing facilities and found altered motherboards there as well, including more sophisticated designs than they’d previously encountered. In one case, the malicious chips were thin enough that they’d been embedded between the layers of fiberglass onto which the other components were attached, according to one person who saw pictures of the chips. That generation of chips was smaller than a sharpened pencil tip, the person [told Bloomberg.]” Amazon has denied the allegations.
good or bad
and China's Mysterious MicroChip
https://www.dailywire.com/news/37297/van-voorhis-amazons-potential-10b-pentagon-peter-van-voorhis
During due diligence testing, Amazon “found a tiny microchip, not much bigger than a grain of rice, that wasn’t part of the boards’ original design. Amazon reported the discovery to U.S. authorities, sending a shudder through the intelligence community. Elemental’s servers could be found in Department of Defense data centers, the CIA’s drone operations, and the onboard networks of Navy warships. During the ensuing top-secret probe, which remains open more than three years later, investigators determined that the chips allowed the attackers to create a stealth doorway into any network that included the altered machines. Multiple people familiar with the matter say investigators found that the chips had been inserted at factories run by manufacturing subcontractors in China.”
If Bezos receives the $10B contract to handle the Department of Defense’s cloud computing, we run the risk of the Chinese government gaining access to top-secret U.S. military data. After receiving word of security breaches at other companies, “Amazon’s security team conducted its own investigation into AWS’s Beijing facilities and found altered motherboards there as well, including more sophisticated designs than they’d previously encountered. In one case, the malicious chips were thin enough that they’d been embedded between the layers of fiberglass onto which the other components were attached, according to one person who saw pictures of the chips. That generation of chips was smaller than a sharpened pencil tip, the person [told Bloomberg.]” Amazon has denied the allegations.