Dell ships motherboard with malicious code

[Basil Chupin]

On 22/07/10 14:52, Christopher Chan wrote:
> On Thursday, July 22, 2010 12:27 PM, Fred A. Miller wrote:
>    
>> On 07/21/2010 08:52 PM, Christopher Chan wrote:
>>      
>>> On Thursday, July 22, 2010 07:06 AM, Fred A. Miller wrote:
>>>
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>>>> 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.
>>
>>      
> Ah, you see...they don't know mainland chinese. Just think about it.
> These are people who are able to still want to sell tainted melamine
> milk, in fact, they hid the stuff that was supposed to have been
> destroyed and now they brought it back out even though they know what it
> will cause to the consumers of the stuff and despite the chinese
> government's executing people responsible for the first instance.
>
> I doubt that Dell would have imagined that such incredibly messed up
> people exist. But yeah, I guess Dell seems to have skipped on some testing.
>    

It's not just Chinese. Some years back there was an application - cannot 
remember which one, but something to do with Windows - which had malware 
on it. The whole batch was recalled when the malware was discovered. 
(And I don't mean that Windows was the malware :-) .)

BC


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