Dell ships motherboard with malicious code

[Christopher Chan]

On Thursday, July 22, 2010 01:02 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> 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:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> 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 :-) .)
>

Oh, oh, the rootkit on Sony music cds was it? Yeah, i have this thing 
for sony now.