Snowden Documentation: Your Motherboard Is Spying On You

[Letemburn]

Um, wasn't this garbage originally posted on a satire site? Seems like other sites didn't realize that and are now running with it, I remember there being a reddit post about this last week on a news sub and it was removed pretty quickly due to being satire.

[Letemburn]

Confirmed satire: http://chronicle.su/2014/08/17/snowden-unveils-nsa-god-mode-malware-that-lives-on-your-motherboard-and-can-not-be-traced/ (Just look at the other articles, lol)

[colonel_mortis]

This is old news, and the article is not strictly accurate. Here is an article about the same news from two years ago (Jan 2014), which explains it much better and more truthfully: http://resources.infosecinstitute.com/close-look-nsa-monitor-catalog-server-hacking/

Notably:

• It only affects a few specific models of server from OEMs
• It requires physical access to the server, to flash the BIOS and install the vulnerability
• It probably wouldn't work on newer servers due to additional security features of modern motherboards

The actual original source for the story posted here is http://chronicle.su/2014/08/17/snowden-unveils-nsa-god-mode-malware-that-lives-on-your-motherboard-and-can-not-be-traced/ (from August 2014). It has recently been copied by several other sites, despite no longer actually being news.

[Miguel Batista]

At this point, i don't even care.

I've become apathetic to 2 things.

Cancer-causing foods and the NSA spying on me.

Good thing too. Now if you get cancer you will be warned by the nsa