Bloomberg reporter of challenged ‘Big Hack’ story gets promoted

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Post by MikusR » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 9:50 PM UTC

Bloomberg reporter of challenged ‘Big Hack’ story gets promoted
washingtonpost.com

Re: Bloomberg reporter of challenged ‘Big Hack’ story gets promoted

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Post by msie » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 10:18 PM UTC

Tell Fake News, Get Promoted!

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Post by xrayzerone » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 11:24 PM UTC

“The Wire” in its last season thought-provokingly explores this topic. What got me was the big lie was comprised of a mesh of micro-decisions, not a big monolithic deception.

Re: Bloomberg reporter of challenged ‘Big Hack’ story gets promoted

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Post by chews » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 11:50 PM UTC

How is that not really what was possible - https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/90758/hacking/usbanywhe...

I get it, he called it a "spy-chip" but the BMC really did have exploitable attack surface.

Re: Bloomberg reporter of challenged ‘Big Hack’ story gets promoted

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Post by cuchulain » Thu, Sep 19, 2019, 3:06 AM UTC

chews wrote: post #4

How is that not really what was possible - https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/90758/hacking/usbanywhe... I get it, he called it a "spy-chip" but the BMC really did have exploitable attack surface.

The difference between a purported nation-state backed subversion of supply chain and manufacturing lines, and poor security in the firmware of the BMC, is still night and day though, and still not what the original article claimed.