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  • Uranium-235
    Comrade Glimmer
    • Aug 2007
    • 5042
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    #1

    Is your supermicro motherboard spying on you? 😄

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  • Topcat
    The Boss Stooge
    • Oct 2003
    • 16956
    • United States

    #2
    Re: Is your supermicro motherboard spying on you? 😄

    It's coming out to be fake hype.

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    • stj
      Great Sage 齊天大聖
      • Dec 2009
      • 30997
      • Albion

      #3
      Re: Is your supermicro motherboard spying on you? 😄

      if you use windows with all the updates then it is spying on you.
      if it's made by lenovo it's spying on you.
      if it has a modern intel chipset then it's spying on you.
      check if the maker is a customer of Computrace - if yes then it's spying on you.

      infact to be blunt, your going to have to work pretty hard to not be fucking spied on these days.

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      • Stefan Payne
        Badcaps Legend
        • Dec 2009
        • 1267
        • Germany

        #4
        Re: Is your supermicro motherboard spying on you? 😄

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSGOKTJri54

        Somewhere there they are talking about Supermicro (I think) and they are also rather sceptical...

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        • Curious.George
          Badcaps Legend
          • Nov 2011
          • 2305
          • Unknown

          #5
          Re: Is your supermicro motherboard spying on you? 😄

          Originally posted by stj
          infact to be blunt, your going to have to work pretty hard to not be fucking spied on these days.
          Just cut the cord and those activities are "invisible" (barring TEMPEST or a theft of equipment).

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          • petehall347
            Badcaps Legend
            • Jan 2015
            • 4426
            • United Kingdom

            #6
            Re: Is your supermicro motherboard spying on you? 😄

            i simply block all inbound and outbound traffic in the firewall . then keep an eye on the data monitor .

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            • stj
              Great Sage 齊天大聖
              • Dec 2009
              • 30997
              • Albion

              #7
              Re: Is your supermicro motherboard spying on you? 😄

              external firewall?
              because one on the machine will be worthless as the spyware runs under it.

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              • Curious.George
                Badcaps Legend
                • Nov 2011
                • 2305
                • Unknown

                #8
                Re: Is your supermicro motherboard spying on you? 😄

                Originally posted by stj
                external firewall?
                because one on the machine will be worthless as the spyware runs under it.
                And a firewall in an appliance (e.g., router) can be pwned.

                A 6 ft gap in your network cable is really the only reliable way to keep a machine -- and the activities and data on it -- isolated (assuming no WiFi, either).

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