"Intel Packet of Death" not Intel's problem
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"Intel Packet of Death" not Intel's problem
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Re: "Intel Packet of Death" not Intel's problem
#2Follow up story on: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5177815
Re: "Intel Packet of Death" not Intel's problem
#3Company from Taipei flashes some Intel equipment, then it appears to function correctly, but can be bricked remotely with a specially crafted incoming packet.
Company has US branch that's a government contractor: http://government-contractor.bizdirlib.com/ceo/Synertron_Tec...
Charming.
Re: "Intel Packet of Death" not Intel's problem
#4Kielhofner's response.
http://blog.krisk.org/2013/02/packets-of-death-update.html
I used to use "Lanner" gear for voip and these had embedded intel ethernets. I don't have any more of them to test, but I swear I've seen it on them as well. We suspected power supply problems because the link lights would just go dark every once in a blue moon and need a power cycle to set right, but then we were never be able to reproduce it.
Re: "Intel Packet of Death" not Intel's problem
#5Company from Taipei flashes some Intel equipment, then it appears to function correctly, but can be bricked remotely with a specially crafted incoming packet. Company has US branch that's a government contractor: http://government-contractor.bizdirlib.com/ceo/Synertron_Tec... Charming.
I think you're reading way more into this, than there is to it.
Taiwan (Republic of China) is by the way, basically it's own country with it's own leadership and currency. I find it somewhat hard to put China (People's Republic of China) and Taiwan (Republic of China) together.
Re: "Intel Packet of Death" not Intel's problem
#6Company from Taipei flashes some Intel equipment, then it appears to function correctly, but can be bricked remotely with a specially crafted incoming packet. Company has US branch that's a government contractor: http://government-contractor.bizdirlib.com/ceo/Synertron_Tec... Charming.
I think you're reading way more into this, than there is to it. Taiwan (Republic of China) is by the way, basically it's own country with it's own leadership and currency. I find it somewhat hard to put China (People's Republic of China) and Taiwan (Republic of China) together.
The difference is in the people.
Re: "Intel Packet of Death" not Intel's problem
#7Company from Taipei flashes some Intel equipment, then it appears to function correctly, but can be bricked remotely with a specially crafted incoming packet. Company has US branch that's a government contractor: http://government-contractor.bizdirlib.com/ceo/Synertron_Tec... Charming.
I think you're reading way more into this, than there is to it. Taiwan (Republic of China) is by the way, basically it's own country with it's own leadership and currency. I find it somewhat hard to put China (People's Republic of China) and Taiwan (Republic of China) together.
Just to clarify, there's a difference between a Special Administrative Region like Hong Kong or Macau, and Taiwan. While Hong Kong is largely self-governing internally, it's still part of the PRC. Meanwhile, Taiwan (the ROC) was founded by people ousted during the revolution. It's like saying North and South Korea are 'basically' their own countries. Politically they aren't even friendly.
Re: "Intel Packet of Death" not Intel's problem
#8Company from Taipei flashes some Intel equipment, then it appears to function correctly, but can be bricked remotely with a specially crafted incoming packet. Company has US branch that's a government contractor: http://government-contractor.bizdirlib.com/ceo/Synertron_Tec... Charming.
If this were a DoS backdoor, it would've not been that much harder to make it less discoverable. Just use two magic bytes, or three. The chance of false positive are virtually zero and yet you'd still be able to use basic ICMP/ping to trigger it if needed.
Re: "Intel Packet of Death" not Intel's problem
#9Firmware images usually have checksums. Was this an Intel blob suffering from bitrot, or does Intel have some more or less error prone way to build your own FW images for NICs?
Re: "Intel Packet of Death" not Intel's problem
#10Company from Taipei flashes some Intel equipment, then it appears to function correctly, but can be bricked remotely with a specially crafted incoming packet. Company has US branch that's a government contractor: http://government-contractor.bizdirlib.com/ceo/Synertron_Tec... Charming.
I think you're reading way more into this, than there is to it. Taiwan (Republic of China) is by the way, basically it's own country with it's own leadership and currency. I find it somewhat hard to put China (People's Republic of China) and Taiwan (Republic of China) together.
Hmm, thought by sticking to raw facts, I would avoid that... turns out I was wrong, now it just looks thinly veiled.
Sincere apologies, poor judgment on my part.