Dell ships motherboard with malicious code

[Fred A. Miller]

On 07/21/2010 08:52 PM, Christopher Chan wrote:
> On Thursday, July 22, 2010 07:06 AM, Fred A. Miller wrote:
>   
>> Dell has confirmed that some of its PowerEdge server motherboards were
>> shipped to customers with malware code on the embedded server management
>> firmware.
>>
>> http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/dell-ships-motherboard-with-malicious-code/6901?tag=nl.e589
>>
>>
>>     
> I wonder why Chinese factories do that...they did the same with them 
> digital photo frames too. Twits.

You would think that Dell would catch something like that BEFORE units
were shipped.

Fred