http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/ Engadget Comments for Researchers design "malicious circuits," warn of potential risk http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/May 1st 2008 2:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/May 1st 2008 2:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/May 1st 2008 4:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/May 1st 2008 7:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/May 1st 2008 2:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/May 1st 2008 3:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/May 1st 2008 3:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/May 1st 2008 3:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/
It can be stopped by throwing an antivirus at it... if a sledgehammer can be considered an antivirus...]]>May 1st 2008 3:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/
Yeah, I haven't seen a EEE rip-off in a while Engadget.]]>May 1st 2008 4:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/
Why even bother telling us this, when the above is the case. It's like saying "Every human can be born with herpes, the doctor would just have to give it to you at birth." DUH!]]>May 1st 2008 4:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/102306counterfeit.html]]>May 1st 2008 3:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/May 1st 2008 3:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/May 2nd 2008 4:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/
Hmmm....http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/37100/108/]]>May 1st 2008 3:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/May 1st 2008 3:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/Sure, their datas safe, but what about their infrastructure.
If someone plants a timebomb in these router, then the govt can loose their entire network. Also, it can be used to create/send out its own false information, appearing to come from the govt.]]>May 1st 2008 3:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/May 1st 2008 3:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/
And there'd be no way to really know, unless AVs caught on to the tech somehow.

I'm concerned....not much, yet...but still concerned.]]>May 1st 2008 5:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/May 1st 2008 3:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/
Wow. Earth shattering.

No shit.]]>May 1st 2008 3:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/May 1st 2008 3:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/May 1st 2008 3:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/May 1st 2008 3:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/May 1st 2008 3:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/
I just don't see this as being nearly wide-spread as software viruses. Building the chips and somehow getting them into your system would seem pretty darn difficult to do, and not worth doing to the average computer user.

...And designing and making the chips that would go into regular systems (that would otherwise work like their regular counterparts) would seem like something very, very few people would be able to do. It would require coordination between those people all the way through the manufacturing, selling, and distributing of the chips. Not very likely.

I guess high-level spying would be another thing, though.]]>May 1st 2008 3:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/May 1st 2008 3:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/
Your only protection in the market is that you can hold the manufacturer accountable after the fact. ]]>May 2nd 2008 9:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/May 1st 2008 3:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/
ever again]]>May 1st 2008 8:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/May 1st 2008 9:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/May 1st 2008 3:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/May 1st 2008 3:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/May 1st 2008 6:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/May 1st 2008 3:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/May 1st 2008 3:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/May 1st 2008 3:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/And it's really important. ]]>May 1st 2008 6:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/May 1st 2008 3:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/May 1st 2008 5:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/...wait, what are we talking about?]]>May 1st 2008 9:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/FPLA's (field programmable logic arrays). The hardware virus is just
another software virus in disguise.]]>May 1st 2008 4:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/May 1st 2008 4:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/May 1st 2008 4:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/
We are unable to tell if this is going on even at this moment. If the computer functions normally otherwise, we cannot examine every internal circuit on a microchip to see if anything extra is there and lying in wait.

I hope our scientists take this very seriously.]]>May 1st 2008 4:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/


finally their DRAM , rootkit and other world domination fantasies will be realised.]]>May 2nd 2008 8:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/May 1st 2008 4:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/May 1st 2008 5:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/They set us up the malicious hardware.]]>May 1st 2008 9:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/01/researchers-design-malicious-circuits-warn-of-potential-risk/]]>May 1st 2008 5:21PM