Dell Ships Infected Motherboards

An anonymous reader writes "Computer maker Dell is warning that some of its server motherboards have been delivered to customers carrying an unwanted extra: computer malware. It could be confirmation that the 'hardware trojans' long posited by some security experts are indeed a real threat."

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Re:What did you expect?

[VoidCrow]

Mod parent up.

Kill switch threat

[sabt-pestnu]

Elsewhere, researchers are also investigating the threat from would-be chip-plant saboteurs, who poison the chip-making processes to introduce a "kill switch" that makes the chip fail unexpectedly.

I wonder if these are the researchers trying to work around the Droid X kill switch?

Re:What did you expect?

[Bigjeff5]

Relative to the majority of the world, the just about all US citizens (and any European citizen, too for that matter) are very, very rich. It's just a fact of life - we've done well for ourselves over the last 200 years. We're actually slipping lately, but we're still, individually, richer than the vast majority of the people in the world.

Most people don't realize that it's their own oppressive governments that are keeping them down, because they have someone to look at and resent.