Computer Chips are Hackable!
Backdoor Access to Chips: Nation-state Designed?
Are Nations-States Creating Computer Hackable Computer Chips?
Backdoor Access to Chips: Nation-state Designed?
Is the New World Order (NWO) alive and well? Is there a conspiracy whereby all is known to the select few? Are our computers designed and controlled by others to enable them to have access? Here are examples:
- Two Cambridge experts have discovered a "back door" in a computer chip used in military systems and aircraft such as the Boeing 787 that could allow the chip to be taken over via the internet.
- Deep inside millions of computers is a digital Fort Knox, a special chip with the locks to highly guarded secrets, including classified government reports and confidential business plans. Now a former U.S. Army computer security specialist has devised a way to break those locks.
- Security researchers in the U.K. have released a paper describing the first real world detection of a backdoor in a microchip. This discovery is in a computer chip with an opening that could allow a malicious person monitor or change the information on the chip. The researchers, Sergi Skorobogatovof the University of Cambridge and Christopher Woods of Quo Vadis Labs, concluded that the vulnerability made it possible to reprogram the contents of supposedly secure memory and obtain information regarding the internal logic of the chip.
What is a Back Door?
A back door is an additional undocumented featured deliberately inserted into a device for extra functionality – in effect, a secret way to get into the computer chip and control it.
The hacker can can disable all the security on the chip, reprogram cryptographic and access keys … or permanently damage the device.
This chip the industry's most secure and are estimated to be in as many as 100 million personal computers and servers.
It is rumored the manufacturer knew this type of attack was possible when it was testing its chips. But the company said independent tests determined that the hack would require such a high skill level that there was a limited chance of it affecting many users. Was this the company’s decision, or were they told to install backdoor?
My concern is who is in charge? We are at risk of cyber-attacks on sensitive information. Moreover, our infrastructure may be manipulated for/by foreign powers, or terrorist.
Who is Responsible?
It is uncertain whom or what entities are creating these vulnerabilities. Could this be part of a Chinese state-sponsored sabotage attempt?
