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Title: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies Post by: vit05 on October 04, 2018, 05:00:16 PM Bloomberg (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies)
The attack by Chinese spies reached almost 30 U.S. companies, including Amazon and Apple, by compromising America’s technology supply chain, according to extensive interviews with government and corporate sources. In 2015, Amazon.com Inc. began quietly evaluating a startup called Elemental Technologies, a potential acquisition to help with a major expansion of its streaming video service, known today as Amazon Prime Video. Based in Portland, Ore., Elemental made software for compressing massive video files and formatting them for different devices. Its technology had helped stream the Olympic Games online, communicate with the International Space Station, and funnel drone footage to the Central Intelligence Agency. Elemental’s national security contracts weren’t the main reason for the proposed acquisition, but they fit nicely with Amazon’s government businesses, such as the highly secure cloud that Amazon Web Services (AWS) was building for the CIA. To help with due diligence, AWS, which was overseeing the prospective acquisition, hired a third-party company to scrutinize Elemental’s security, according to one person familiar with the process. The first pass uncovered troubling issues, prompting AWS to take a closer look at Elemental’s main product: the expensive servers that customers installed in their networks to handle the video compression. These servers were assembled for Elemental by Super Micro Computer Inc., a San Jose-based company (commonly known as Supermicro) that’s also one of the world’s biggest suppliers of server motherboards, the fiberglass-mounted clusters of chips and capacitors that act as the neurons of data centers large and small. In late spring of 2015, Elemental’s staff boxed up several servers and sent them to Ontario, Canada, for the third-party security company to test, the person says. Read more on:Bloomberg (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies) Hackers will be the soldiers in the future. Title: Re: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies Post by: allahabadi on October 04, 2018, 06:29:52 PM Wow
Great read, also hackers are the soldiers already. Title: Re: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies Post by: James_Cline on October 08, 2018, 01:49:30 AM Wow, China seems to be upping its game. Came across this article too:
https://multimedia.scmp.com/news/china/article/2166148/china-2025-artificial-intelligence/index.html Apparently, they want be THE world leader in Artificial Intelligence. Just wow. Title: Re: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies Post by: TECSHARE on October 08, 2018, 05:13:18 AM There was a lot of speculation that the series of industrial explosions in China a year or two back were targeting AI development using the so called "rod of god". There was at least SOME veracity to these claims IMO given the nature of the explosions, timing, and proximity to known development sites.
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